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

[Gary T. Benner]

[Reply]

PBTech has a 128G SSD for $102, a 250G for $159, and a 500GB for $299 (all + gst) so if it's worth your while, get a new SSD, and clone the drive and use Partition Magic if you still have it or one of the Linux tools such as GParted to re-partition if your version of Windows cannot do it.

cheers

Gary


At 09:46 on 10/08/2015 you wrote 
>
>
>Hi Guys,
>
>Yes, Gary reminded me that it was on a very, very old email address that I
>registered that old D7.
>
>Does anyone know if I can install XE2 onto an external drive? I only have
>14GB left on my SSD - gone are the days when 8GB was big enough for
>everything I needed.
>
>Steve
>
>On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Willie <willie at compliant.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Mmmmm it shows all of mine, well back to Delphi 7 at least, which I
>> apparently registered in 2003. Maybe you registered it under a different
>> company?
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:
>> delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] *On Behalf Of *Steve Peacocke
>> *Sent:* Monday, 10 August 2015 9:37 a.m.
>> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <
>> delphi at listserver.123.net.nz>
>> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Installing Delphi 7 onto laptop with no CD drive
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Willie,
>>
>>
>>
>> Gret though and went there - but it only shows XE2 upgrade registration,
>> even though I joined this when I registered with D2007 (CodeGear then).
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Willie <willie at compliant.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>>
>>
>> Log into your embarcadero account (I think you can do this through the
>> developer network home page) then select the My Account link at the top of
>> the page, and in the left hand side you should see My member Services/My
>> Registered Products - that lists all of your products and gives serial
>> numbers - quite handy in such situations.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:
>> delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] *On Behalf Of *Steve Peacocke
>> *Sent:* Monday, 10 August 2015 9:15 a.m.
>> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
>> *Subject:* [DUG] Installing Delphi 7 onto laptop with no CD drive
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> Mobile: +64 220 612-611
>>
>> Linkedin Professional Profile
>> <http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/steve-peacocke/1/a06/489>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list
>> Post: delphi at listserver.123.net.nz
>> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
>> Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-request at listserver.123.net.nz with
>> Subject: unsubscribe
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list
>> Post: delphi at listserver.123.net.nz
>> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
>> Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-request at listserver.123.net.nz with
>> Subject: unsubscribe
>>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list
>Post: delphi at listserver.123.net.nz
>Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
>Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-request at listserver.123.net.nz with Subject: unsubscribe

Ref#: 41006

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://listserver.123.net.nz/pipermail/delphi/attachments/20150810/73349acb/attachment-0001.html