scottiepimpin Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I have legal copy ...I can't install on my new laptop..any help would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee4Life Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I have legal copy ...I can't install on my new laptop..any help would be appreciated How do new laptops not have CD players? Also couldn't you install Mvp 05 to a flash drive and then transfer it onto your laptop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim825 Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 How do new laptops not have CD players? Also couldn't you install Mvp 05 to a flash drive and then transfer it onto your laptop? Many new laptops, especially the ones that can also be tablets do not have CD drives. One of my daughters has an ASUS laptop and another has a Macbook without CD drives. In order to watch movies or install anything from a CD or DVD, you have to buy an external drive that connects via a USB cable. They are fairly inexpensive. This is the one they got at Best Buy: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-ultra-slim-8x-max-dvd-write-speed-external-usb-dvdrw-cd-rw-drive-black/5407064.p?id=1219650452864&skuId=5407064 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee4Life Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I don't understand the reason for not including a CD drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim825 Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Many of the new laptops are so thin that CD drives will not fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kccitystar Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I don't understand the reason for not including a CD drive. Laptops are designed with less weight in mind and you can literally download anything you need if you have enough internet speed available, so the whole idea of going to a store and buying a disc-based version of anything is actually more inconvenient than buying whatever the item is digitally and downloading it from the comfort of your couch/bed/desk. It used to be a given that your laptop had a disc drive, but now you have to make a conscious choice to have a disc drive by looking for a laptop that has one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim825 Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 It's similar to how all desktop PC used to have floppy disc drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee4Life Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Laptops are designed with less weight in mind and you can literally download anything you need if you have enough internet speed available, so the whole idea of going to a store and buying a disc-based version of anything is actually more inconvenient than buying whatever the item is digitally and downloading it from the comfort of your couch/bed/desk. It used to be a given that your laptop had a disc drive, but now you have to make a conscious choice to have a disc drive by looking for a laptop that has one That's true. The new laptops I have seen at Best Buy for example are extremely thin and as Jim said, have no room for a CD drive. It just wouldn't fit. However there are still some reasons to use a CD or DVD. If you have an old movie for example and you want to watch it on your laptop. That's one reason. Or if you have stuff burned onto a DVD. Instead of just popping that into your new laptop you got to find one that has a CD drive and transfer what you need onto a flash drive. That's an extra step. It's similar to how all desktop PC used to have floppy disc drives. Remember the older ones? They had the 3.5 and the 5.25 disk drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotribematt Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 You could buy and external cd/dvd drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee4Life Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 You could buy and external cd/dvd drive Yeah, that's what Jim said in the third post of this thread. Whatever works, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 cd drives are useless anyhow. i can't remember the last time i even needed one on a laptop. but to fix the issue, you can use the external cd drive if you want. but like Y4L said, you can also use a jump drive. the game is portable. all you need is to create image files of disc 2, and use daemon tools lite to mount them on your laptop. you can transfer the game from your computer to a jump drive and play directly from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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