Hello,
My wife has a laptop that has issues with the DVD/CD drive...after numerous attempts to activate it (believe it may be the drive itself) have considered using a flash drive to install a program... my wife has a program she wishes to install on the laptop and I thought of using the USB drive, cannot download the program from the internet.... she rarely uses the DVD drive so repairing it not a PRIORITY at this time...I have a computer with the same windows and software so thought I could use mine to put the cd on the drive and then install it in her laptop..

What would be the easiest way of doing this if it is possible...

Thanks in advance,

Larry WollerP.S. I do have the cd with all the drivers that came with the laptop, thought I may try that also should I be able to download on a flash drive..

LarryWhat app ? ?
It may not require being bootable.
What my wife is wishing to download is software from a cd for one of her programs...it is not on the internet and I have tried to install on the flash drive but does nothing upon OPENING.. it is much like Windows software and also the cd with the drivers is bootable.. if there is a reasonable way to copy the cd to the flash drive, especially to GET the dvd drive working, and get it to work  off the flash drive, that is what I am looking for...

LarryWhat program ? ?it is a publisher 2 COMPU works program and when I put the cd into my computer, it instantly starts up with install wizard...basically what I need is a way to get around the DVD/CD player as it will not work at this time, in spite of all attempts to get it to working...
LarryCopy the entire app to the flash drive...
The find and run setup.exe...
It's not booting...so thats not neccessary...it's using autorun...totally different
Once you copy all the files from the CD to the flash drive you should be able to install the program by manually running the installer.  The thumd drive won't autorun like the CD.  Explore the folders on the thumb drive and see if you can find a setup.exe or install.bat or something like that.Who's feeding the Parrots again ? ?Thanks for the help everyone!. believe I have all the "i's" dotted and the "t's" crossed and ready to give saving to a flash drive and using it a go  in the very near future..appreciate all the assistance!!

Larry WollerLarry,
Installing a program from a USB flash is not hard.
Just do it.
Most often the install file is called  setup.exe and you just click it.

Patio, they gave me an extension on my PARROT flying license.