How do I get my Office Professional on my Laptop /w no CD drive?

I bought a new laptop (small little guy so it doesn't have a built CD/DVD drive).

 

I have a copy of Office Professional (2003) on CD that I want to install on this laptop but given that I don't have a CD/DVD drive is there any way I can do this (without getting an external CD/DVD drive).

 

I tried copying the files to a USB memory stick which seemed to have worked (the actual copying of the files) but when I tried to install from the program from the USB stick it gave me an error message (said something like "Installation aborted files not from original source") ... so, it basically knew i copied the files from the CD to the memory stick ...

 

Any other suggestions as to how this can be accomplished?

 

Thanks.

you got another computer?  you should be able to install it from that cd-drive by networking the computers and sharing the cd-drive.

did you try copying the files to the laptop hard drive and trying it?

 

by the way, what brand laptop?

yeah ... i have a desktop ... don't think i have the skills to network it though ...

 

i will try copying the files to the laptop hard drive and trying it that way ...

 

the laptop is just a cheap little MSI Wind Notebook ... picked it up for b/c it's cheap and does what I need it to do ...

 

thanks jack!

Buy it online, and download would be a way.

 

If you don't want to pay for it ( because you previously have ) can you take the hard drive out, and bring put it into a computer that has a CD drive?

Yeah, if you do the buy and return, look to see if they will hit you with a restocking fee.

 

How do you like the Wind?  How about a little review if possible, I am considering getting one of those netbooks.

if you know how to use burning software, you could make an .iso file of the Office CD and then copy that file from your desktop computer to the Wind with the USB drive.

 

Next, download this.  It is basically a program that emulates a CD-Rom drive.  Install it on the Wind.

 

Start the CD emulator program and locate the .iso file and see if it installs for you this way.  Don't see why it won't, unless the Office CD has some copy protection to prevent copying the CD correctly.

why would you return the external cd drive after you load office on your laptop?  The drives are so damn cheap now, why not just keep it?  It will always come in handy.

People on this site brag about how many thousands they bet, yet we got a guy here to cheap to buy a cd drive.  Truly amazing.