[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Yes, a good option - though the steps required to accomplish that are, frankly, beyond the skills of the average YouTube commenter...which is why I'm more inclined to reccomend people get an external drive.

Can be brutally slow too. I did this a few years ago to install Encarta on an older laptop with no DVD drive (CD only) and it took several hours to install.

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Yes, a good option - though the steps required to accomplish that are, frankly, beyond the skills of the average YouTube commenter...which is why I'm more inclined to reccomend people get an external drive.

Can be brutally slow too. I did this a few years ago to install Encarta on an older laptop with no DVD drive (CD only) and it took several hours to install.

[randalllewis]

BTW Jason, where did you find that nice looking HP portable drive you show during the video? I don't see anything that looks like that on the HP website.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by randalllewis

BTW Jason, where did you find that nice looking HP portable drive you show during the video? I don't see anything that looks like that on the HP website.

It came with the HP dv2 that HP sent me, so they definitely sell it...