Installing a CD question

[cookiejarmonsta]

Quick question whats the best way to install a game cd on a desktop that doesnt have a dvd drive besides buying an external usb one?

 

Bought battlefield 1 cd to save bandwidth. Any suggestions would be great!

 

Thank you!

[Jochen754]

Go to a friend with a DVD drive.

Copy the DVD on an USB drive.

 

Install the game at home from the USB drive.

 

Profit

[Marine_Boy]

Well... You need a dvd drive. You can either buy an external or internal one and install the game. I don't think making an .iso file out of it on another pc will work because of piracy protection.   

[cookiejarmonsta]

Well that just brought up an idea , i have a laptop with a dvd drive and an external ssd. What if installed it onto my ssd via my laptop then drag the files onto my tower?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, cookiejarmonsta said:

Well that just brought up an idea , i have a laptop with a dvd drive and an external ssd. What if installed it onto my ssd via my laptop then drag the files onto my tower?

Don't. You can't copy paste what's in a dvd and run it (might work but can not guarantee).  What I do is rip it to an .iso file. Imgburn is a nice tool to do that. 

 

Then copy iso file to your desktop. Mount iso with Windows and it will act like a dvd disc

[cookiejarmonsta]

21 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Don't. You can't copy paste what's in a dvd and run it (might work but can not guarantee).  What I do is rip it to an .iso file. Imgburn is a nice tool to do that. 

 

Then copy iso file to your desktop. Mount iso with Windows and it will act like a dvd disc

Oh that works? Okay ill give it a shot when i get home thanks!

[cookiejarmonsta]

*solved* So, at the end I didn't need to rip to an .ISO basically what I did was installed the game onto my external HDD via my laptop. Once installed copied game that was on the external HDD onto my desktop SSD. Seeing as I was using Origin it detected the game and everything was all sweet, just had to download the current patch ad I was good to go!