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Old Sep 15, 2014, 2:38 pm
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Loren Pechtel
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Originally Posted by YVR Cockroach
I want to install MS Office '07 on my new Lenovo. Unfortunately I don't have a external optical drive. I was hoping to use the connector of a SATA HD to connect a laptop DVD drive but I see that the connector for an laptop optical drive is shorter than that of a SATA HD so that won't work.

How can I install it? Anyway to make an image and install?

At my disposal, I do have 2 Acer Aspire with ODDs, various SATA external drives and drive housings and an ODD HD caddy.
I have installed Office from an image copied to the hard drive.

The only program I have run into that won't install that way is Visual Studio.
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