Installing without CD drive?

I was sold Photoshop Elemets 11 with my new laptop which does not have a CD drive. How fo I install it?

Download the Trial version from the Adobe website, install it and activate it with your serial number. You don't have to wait until the Trial expires.
http://www.adobe.com/go/tryphotoshop_elements/

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Install without optical drive

How can I install software without having an optical drive on my MacBook Air?

If you're talking about the current version, you can download the trial and enter your serial number into that. For older versions, one way would be to copy the contents of your discs to something like a thumb drive and use that instead. If you're near an apple store they'll sometimes let you do this there, using an external disc drive.

Acrobat XI Install without Optical Drive

I have purchase Acrobat XI but do not have an optical drive on my new laptop. Is there a way to install via the serial number that came with the CD?

Just download XI from http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/acrobat-downloads.html. Please make a backup, though you do have the CD so that is probably not important for you. You can also consider taking the CD to your local library and copying the install files to a memory stick.

Install without DVD drive

How can I install photoshop 8 if my mac doesn't have a dvd drive?

Direct Download Links for Adobe Software
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How do I install a printer driver, without the printer?

You see, I don't want to print anything.
I am using some CAD software and I use the “create PDF” function of the printer dialogue to make a PDF. The problem is my drawing is quite large so I need to install a printer driver for a printer that handles larger paper (Epson 1280). I have the driver, but it refuses to install without the printer being attached to it.

I didn't post one.

My hard drive is fried. I need to reinstall moutain lion to a new SSD drive. How do I install without media?

My hard drive fried. I can't reinstall from the OSX utilities because it only shows the recovery partition. I was thinking about adding an SSD drive. But I dont know how to install OSX mountain lion without any media. What are my choices? What should I do?

First, the recovery option is built in to OS X - not the disk. If you install the new drive without formatting it first or without having an OS on it, it will not work (at least as far as I know). Most drives need to be formatted and it needs to be Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and use the GUID Partition Scheme.
You said that your hard drive is fried but that you can access the recovery? The Command + Option + R is the internet recovery which means it accesses Apple's servers and a limited number of things including disk utility. I've not dealt with this type of problems, so I'm not sure, but If you can access that and you have your new drive in an external enclosure and attached, then you may be able to use Disk Utility on the recovery to format your new drive and then choose to install the OS directly on it.
The second possibility - and, according to the following article, this should work directly (I've not tried it, so I can't guarantee it will):
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
The easiest way would be to attach the new drive in an enclosure and use your internal's disk utility to format and then clone the entire thing to it, but that does not appear to be an option. Unless...... do you have a bootable clone backup or a Time Machine backup?

I need to install a keyboard driver without a keyboard

I need to install a USB keyboard driver on my Mac Mini without a keyboard (my USB mouse works fine, and my original keyboard is 1000 miles away). I have only one USB keyboard in this house but the driver to make it work with OS X is on the Logitech website, which I have downloaded onto a CD. I can run the driver installation program by using the mouse, but OS X demands that I provide the system password with the keyboard in order to install the keyboard driver. That's a catch-22. MY QUESTION: is there a program that I can download for Mac OS X that will let me enter keystrokes using the mouse?

MY QUESTION: is there a program that I can download for
Mac OS X that will let me enter keystrokes using the mouse?
No download needed, but this is going to be painful. FontBook will do what you want.
Fire up FontBook by browsing using the mouse to the Applications folder.
Under the Edit menu, choose "Special Characters". A Character Palette will appear. View Code Tables so that you get the full set of fonts. Basic Latin (the first set) would be best so that you don't get into unicode issues. At this point you've got two choices:
(1) it appears that the character palette works on whatever program is in the foreground. So you could click on whatever program's window you want to type keys into, double click on the appropriate character in the character palatte and it will insert (or select the character, click the Insert button).
(2) if you aren't a perfect "typist" (clicker), you might want to insert whatever characters you want to type into a TextEdit document, copy (drag select, choose copy from the Edit menu), change to whatever program you want to provide keys for, paste. But certain programs (login windows, etc.) may not let you use a menu choice for paste.
Painful, but it can be done.
Russ
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I had iPhoto as part of iLife 11. I recently did an erase and install on my Macbook Air and without a CD drive I'm unable to reinstall. How can I install without having to repurchase all of the apps?

I had iPhoto as part of iLife 11. I recently did an erase and install on my Macbook Air and without a CD drive I'm unable to reinstall. How can I install without having to repurchase all of the apps?

Do you have access to another Mac with a disk drive? If so you can do it in one of two ways:
1 - on the Mac with the optical drive launch Disk Utility and make a disk image of the iLife 11 disk. Connect the two Macs together and transfer the disk image to your MacBook Air. Mount the disk image and install from it. I have my iLife disks saved that way for quick and easy reinstall when necessary.
2 - connect the two Mac together so you can access the MBA from the Mac with the disk drive. Insert the iLife disk, and install from the second Mac to the MBA.

How do I install Tiger without DVD drive?

How do I install Tiger without DVD drive on a Powerbook?
My Powerbook had some problems recently, the HDD and the Superdrive where gone. I replaced the HD but can not get Tiger installed here because the DVD drive isn't working. I boot right now from a FW HD. Any Ideas how to install the OS on the internal drive?
Any ideas would be apreciated.

See Option 2 in
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304129> or Option 1 in
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303028>
It has worked for at least one person:
"Kenichi Watanabe
Posts: 853
Registered: 2-Sep-2003
Re: Using DVD drive in iMac G4 for iMac G3 in Target Disk Mode-->won't read DVD
Posted: 26-Oct-2006 4:37 PM in response to: AJ Nealey
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I just tried it between a Power Mac G5 and a PowerBook G3 (Pismo) and it worked. The G5 was Mac in Firewire Target Disk Mode. I started the G5 with the T with no DVD in the drive. I started up the G3, and the G5's hard drive appeared on the G3's desktop. I pushed the eject key (on the G5 keyboard) and the SuperDrive opened. I put in a DVD (the Tiger installation disk) and closed the SuperDrive. The DVD appeared on the G3's desktop. I restarted the G3 with the Option key held down, and the DVD in the G5 appeared as a valid startup choice."

Can I install Windows without optical Driver

Hi!
I have a Macbook pro Early 2008 - MB134LL/A but its optical driver cannot read any disc. Now I want to install Windows via BootCamp but it cannot. Anybody know how can I install Windows without optical Driver? I tried to boot by USBflash, USB DVD Driver but it cannot boot.
I think that does external optical drivers via firewire work?
Thanks alot!

Thank you for your reply, and the information. This is what I came up with:
I added the strings as instructed, however when I went to sign the script in terminal, I was told:
/Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app: replacing existing signature
/Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app: code object is not signed at all
In subcomponent: /Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app/Contents/info.plist
Also, here are screen captures of the lines that I added. Mine are the top string entries:
Thank you for your help, thus far!

How to install WinXP on SATA without floppy drive?

Hi.
Is it possible to install WinXP on PC (with SATA) without floppy drive?
WinXP installer itself doesn't recognize SATA controller, so floppy disk with drivers is included.
But my PC doesn't have any floppy drive (what a relic. none of new PCs should contain a floppy).
How could I install WinXP on my PC? (without buying & mounting floppy drive).
(maybe one of DVD drives, ethernet or flash drive could be used somehow)
thanks.

Quote from: brummie on 06-June-05, 19:22:57
dear list,
silly you cant download from the website really isnt it.
cheers
brummie
You can download the article, but you need to do it from your web browser. File -> Save as.
Quote from: Deathstalker on 06-June-05, 21:32:36
Jeremy,
If you are having to do that all the time, then there is something else wrong with your computing habbits.
Richard
I used to try out programs on my old laptop and some of them weren't as clean as I had hoped. So I used to reinstall windows on it all the time. Luckily windows had all the drivers for my laptop so I didn't have to slipstream the drivers, but I probably reinstalled windows every other week. I just figured it was better to try a program on a computer that I didn't rely on rather than my main rig.
Have Fun
Jeremy

Already i download driver for install the windows, i can get the drivers but i can't install windows, how i can install windows without downloads driver again

already i download driver for install the windows, i can get the drivers but i can't install windows, how i can install windows without download driver again

This seems to be a commercial product. For the best chance at finding a solution I would suggest posting in the forum for HP Business Support!
You can find the Commercial Laserjet board here:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Printers-LaserJet/bd-p/bsc-413
Best of Luck!
You can say thanks by clicking the Kudos Star in my post. If my post resolves your problem, please mark it as Accepted Solution so others can benefit too.

Install Lightroom 6 from CD without CD-Drive

Can I install Lightroom 6 from CD without CD-Drive via an other PC?

You could copy the disk contents to a thumb drive or external hard drive and run the installation from there.
Alternatively install the free version of Creative Cloud; then click the Try button for Lightroom CC 2015. Serialize with the number from your disk packaging to convert to LR6.

Have leopard can I with using lion thumb drive, install without first install snow leoapard

Have leopard, can I with using lion thumb drive, install without first install snow leoapard ?

The requirement for Snow Leopard was for downloading Lion from the app store. With Lion on the thumb drive, you can upgrade without SL.
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Per Adobe website, a download for Acrobat 9 for Mac is "not available." What alternative does Adobe offer to those who have bought and paid for Acrobat and now have computers without optical drive to install that previously purchased software? Buy a PC? B

Per Adobe website, a download for Acrobat 9 for Mac is "not available." What alternative does Adobe offer to those who have bought and paid for Acrobat and now have computers without optical drive to install that previously purchased software? Buy a PC? Buy an external CD drive? Is the answer really "too bad"?

Acrobat 9 for Mac can be downloaded from
Download Adobe CS5 Free Trials – All Direct Links without Akamai | ProDesignTools
Follow the Very Important Instructions on that page first BEFORE you click the download link.

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