office 2003 - install with no disc drive

[akbar]

I have recently bought a new laptop, that doesnt have a disc drive. But I have got Office 2003 that I bought for my old computer and I want to like to put it on my new laptop. I have the disc with me, and also the product key. The shop from where I bought it told me that I will be able to download it and put my product key in or just copy it on to a memory stick and trasfer. I tried to do both the things, but nothing worked. So, can anyone tell me how to get Office from one pc to another laptop? Thanks.

[Russell]

Can you tell us what are you trying to transfer or copy? The only thing thats going to work is to copy the complete contents of the disc, means like doing this on the old computer that on the hard drive. You wont be able to get any working installation of Office by any other means. If you have a network connection between 2 computers, then you can copy it in a folder on the laptop's drive, or you can also copy it onto a memory stick with large enough space. Once the disc image is copied on to the laptop drive, then simply run the setup.exe in the top level folder of the image.

[Big Fish]

As for the 2nd alternative, you can try to buy a cheap usb optical drive and then copy the disc image on the additional programs and then can copy it over to the laptop and start the setup.exe file.

[JohnRolandElliott]

Do you have a network that contains a computer with a CD drive?

In situations like the one you face, what I typically do is

1. insert the CD on the drive in a networked computer
2. share the CD drive
3. on the computer you want to install software on, connect to the CD share (assigning a drive letter may not be necessary but I always do that)
4. run the setup program or the .msi file.

Good luck.