[Reply] HI Steve,
For such situations, dealing with servers etc with no CD drives, I have a cheap external USB CD/DVD drive. Very useful... You can also use Virtual Clone Drive, freeware which will present an ISO file as a new CD Drive in your system. http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html Have fun cheers Gary At 09:17 on 10/08/2015 you wrote > > >Hi Everyone, > >I need to create a few small applications on my work computer that is a >laptop with no CD drive. I figure Delphi 7 is all I need to create the few >small apps that I need to manipulate some XML here and as my work laptop >has a small SSD drive, D7 will be far better to install than XE2. > >I have 2 questions: > > 1. Where can I legitimately download D7 onto a computer without a CD > drive? > 2. Without the original CD, where will I find my D7 serial number? - I > have it on the original CD, but finding that will mean opening up all of > the old boxes taking up that side of the garage as I've moved numerous > times since I bought the original D7 CD with the serial number. Only later > versions (my e.g. XE2) emailed the registration, previous versions had it > printed on the CD or box, > >I legitimately own both D7 and XE2 (Professional, both versions). > >I logged into CodeCentral and downloaded Delphi7 but that download is only >to burn a CD. As mentioned, I don't have a CD drive, I've got a small SSD >with only 14GB left. > >I do have an external 1TB drive, but expect that Delphi, like everything >else, will insist on installing onto C: drive. > >I was told that having XE2 will allow you to download all previous versions >but that link simply states "this promotion is over" - so another dead end >there. > > >Steve Peacocke >Mobile: +64 220 612-611 >Linkedin Professional Profile ><http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/steve-peacocke/1/a06/489> > > >_______________________________________________ >NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >Post: [email protected] >Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with >Subject: unsubscribe Ref#: 41006
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