[DUG] Installing Delphi 7 onto laptop with no CD drive

[Gary T. Benner]

[Reply]

HI Steve,

For such situations, dealing with servers etc with no CD drives, I have a cheap external USB CD/DVD drive. Very useful...

You can also use Virtual Clone Drive, freeware which will present an ISO file as a new CD Drive in your system.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

Have fun

cheers

Gary


At 09:17 on 10/08/2015 you wrote 
>
>
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I need to create a few small applications on my work computer that is a
>laptop with no CD drive. I figure Delphi 7 is all I need to create the few
>small apps that I need to manipulate some XML here and as my work laptop
>has a small SSD drive, D7 will be far better to install than XE2.
>
>I have 2 questions:
>
>   1. Where can I legitimately download D7 onto a computer without a CD
>   drive?
>   2. Without the original CD, where will I find my D7 serial number? - I
>   have it on the original CD, but finding that will mean opening up all of
>   the old boxes taking up that side of the garage as I've moved numerous
>   times since I bought the original D7 CD with the serial number. Only later
>   versions (my e.g. XE2) emailed the registration, previous versions had it
>   printed on the CD or box,
>
>I legitimately own both D7 and XE2 (Professional, both versions).
>
>I logged into CodeCentral and downloaded Delphi7 but that download is only
>to burn a CD. As mentioned, I don't have a CD drive, I've got a small SSD
>with only 14GB left.
>
>I do have an external 1TB drive, but expect that Delphi, like everything
>else, will insist on installing onto C: drive.
>
>I was told that having XE2 will allow you to download all previous versions
>but that link simply states "this promotion is over" - so another dead end
>there.
>
>
>Steve Peacocke
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