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Al

I just bought a "Deluxe Graphics Pack" DVD Edition. Unfortunately (my
stupidity) I only have a CD writer and a CD reader. Anything I can do
to use or convert what I bought? Thank you.
 
find a friend that has a dvd rom drive and use a program
(there are many) that will zip the whole thing into
a split archive of 650-700 mb parts so you can write those to cds..
then take the cds to your own computer, copy the parts to the hard drive and
use the same program to reconstruct the application
 
Al said:
I just bought a "Deluxe Graphics Pack" DVD Edition. Unfortunately (my
stupidity) I only have a CD writer and a CD reader. Anything I can do to
use or convert what I bought? Thank you.
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cd cannot read dvd - no shortcuts

you could get someone to repack and convert, which means a pizza for a
friend
and a lot of mucking around and may not work anyway
you could borrow a dvd reader for a few minutes, but it probably needs to
read extras off the disk or will be a multi gig instal

or dvd drives go for $A30 and dual layer burners with software for $A65
and you need never have the problem again
...you also get a new dvd player ( assuming a 1 gig or better ..older and it
probably
won't keep up or be able to write at dvd speeds, if it can do cdr at 8x or
better it should keep
up )
...you also get the option of backing up the whole drive to dvd which is a
lot
less tiresome, dvd recordable cost much the same as cdr depending on brand
 
Al said:
I just bought a "Deluxe Graphics Pack" DVD Edition. Unfortunately (my
stupidity) I only have a CD writer and a CD reader. Anything I can do
to use or convert what I bought? Thank you.
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Thanks, everyone.
 
John said:
find a friend that has a dvd rom drive and use a program
(there are many) that will zip the whole thing into
a split archive of 650-700 mb parts so you can write those to cds..
then take the cds to your own computer, copy the parts to the hard drive and
use the same program to reconstruct the application
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if it only runs off a disc then you could use "virtual drive" to run
it off the hdd.
You'll still have to get a friend get that set up, and setting that up
will require the friend to use a DVD drive as well as his expertise. he
would then transfer the huge ISO to you.

The sanest thing to do is not a workaround. Get a dvd drive. You could
change your CD drive for a DVD drive. DVD drives tend to (always?) read
CDs too, and (always?) burn CDs even.

If you have room in your comp, I suggest having 2 drives. the current
cd drive, and the dvd drive you get. Because DVDRWs like CDRWs can play
up and have issues, and having 2 helps with troubleshooting, makes it
less of a nightmare .
 
John said:
thanks.. ok ..

but you did not tell us what you are going to do...

:-)
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I called the selling company ... told them of my stupidity ... and the
rep, after putting me on hold for a couple of minutes came back and told
me they had an almost identical graphics pack on CD which he was sending
out to me "no charge". Told me to "give the DVD to a friend".
 
Newbie, this newsgroup is for discussing free software only.

Yrrah
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To be fair, the FULL CONTEXT of his message:
I just bought a "Deluxe Graphics Pack" DVD Edition. Unfortunately (my
stupidity) I only have a CD writer and a CD reader. Anything I can do
to use or convert what I bought? Thank you.
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....indicates (at least to me) that he was looking for a workaround
(freeware?) to solve the problem. Even if he hadn't indicated this
was a "newbie" question, not everyone would intuitively know that
there ISN'T a free software solution to extracting data from a DVD
with only CD-R/RW drives. Several replied in various ways that using
a DVD drive was the only practical solution. As it happens, the OP
got a CD-R replacement at no cost from the vendor, which was a decent
thing for them to do.

Most of the time I'd be with you (e.g., when people insist on touting
"payware" solutions despite the fact that this is alt.comp.FREEWARE)
but I don't think the OP was off topic. Just my $0.02 worth.
 
Ron said:
To be fair, the FULL CONTEXT of his message:




...indicates (at least to me) that he was looking for a workaround
(freeware?) to solve the problem. ...

Most of the time I'd be with you (e.g., when people insist on touting
"payware" solutions despite the fact that this is alt.comp.FREEWARE)
but I don't think the OP was off topic. Just my $0.02 worth.
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Ron's reading of it was mine as well. And yup, most of the time I'd be
with you on this too, Yrrah.

-Craig
 
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