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Microsoft Windows 10 (32-bit)

My laptop does not have a CD Drive. How do I load software that is on a CD?

 

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Hi:

 

You would have to purchase a USB DVD burner.

 

Something like this...

 

Amazon.com: External DVD Drive, USB 3.0 Portable CD/DVD +/-RW Drive/DVD Player for Laptop CD ROM Bur...

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The software I wish to load onto my lap top IS on a CD. A burner would be of no use....I do have an external  DVD-RW. Would this DVD-RW external drive allow me to load the software onto this HP laptop?

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An external  DVD-RW is a DVD burner and would work just fine to install software from a CD, so I don't know how you can write that a burner would be of no use.

 

It does everyting...reads and burns CD's, reads and burns DVD's.

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