TLHLT Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Hi, Ive just bought myself an Acer Aspire ONE its a fantastic little laptop with one flaw, it has no disk drive is there anyway i can get FM08 to work without needing a disk drive? ive tried creating an iso image and using a virtual disk drive but it doesnt like me not using the disk i do have a usb cd/dvd drive but i dont particually want to take that with me whilst im aborad this september any help would be great TLHLT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Ritchie Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 You can't do it, unfortunately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmufcwafc Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 I think the only legal way is to buy the digital download version of the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekman Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 There's no legal way to do this so you'll either have to use some sort of external cd drive or take your machine back and replace it with one that has a dvd\cd drive! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarbanrael Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 yeah i think the only choice will be to take that cd/dvd drive of yours along for the holidays Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike7077 Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 I can't believe they'd make a laptop without a CD drive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionel messi Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 gosh how old is it? it must be about 10 years old lol, it must be ancient if its got no cd/dvd drive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmufcwafc Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 gosh how old is it? it must be about 10 years old lol, it must be ancient if its got no cd/dvd drive. It's probably fairly new, there's a lot of tiny laptops that don't have disk drives these days Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smac Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Get the digital download. Not a lot of money and you'll be happy. Maybe SI will cut you a break if you can authenticate your disk purchase with them? And drive-less laptops are awesome. Can't wait 'till drives are gone for good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moaner Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 i dont have an internal cd drive...they make ultra-portable laptops now you know!! obviously designed for work rather then leisure....unfortunatly i prefer leisure Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opperkleurder Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Buy an external cd/dvd drive with usb connection. You can buy one below 70 euro I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Ritchie Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Maybe in future those who buy the boxed game will also be allowed access to the digital download. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McMaster#28 Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 If you wanted to buy FM08 again it's on Steam which is a digital download and hence no CD. http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=app&AppId=10480&cc=GB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLHLT Posted August 27, 2008 Author Share Posted August 27, 2008 Thanks for all the help, i guess i will be taking my usb cd/dvd drive the laptop isnt old its one of these netbooks like the asus EEE pc's, just by acer and of better spec TLHLT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Ritchie Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Remember, you only need the CD in at startup so you can presumably remove the drive once you've started playing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
profii Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 you could buy the digital download and play the game with no CD rom but you could also buy something like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EXTERNAL-USB-DVD-RW-DUAL-LAYER-DRIVE-FOR-ALL-LAPTOP_W0QQitemZ160276441137QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item160276441137&_trkparms=72%3A984|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1308&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 this would probably be better, although it is more expensive than the download, you probably have more CD's than just FM there are ways to mount the CD and although you have purchased a license to run FM08 it is an off topic debate for this thread and i wont tell you what you need to do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earmack Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 There's a couple laptops that have cd/dvd drives that seperate from the rest of the unit, those are snazzy. Also the OP has said he has a USB cd/dvd drive so people can stop telling him he could buy one. Unless you want to pay for the game again (steam) you're just going to have to use your usb drive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unkle P Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Might be a silly question but let's risk it ! Is using an emulator like Daemon Tools in such a case (CD bought in store for personal use only) legal ? This question have been asked on a french forum I'm moderating and I really don't know what to answer. Obviously, the easier way to play on netbooks or other small laptops is to buy the game online but what if it's too late already ? External drive aren't really handy but if it's the only other legal solution ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LutonNil Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 I can't believe they'd make a laptop without a CD drive. It's getting more common with the ultra thin lappys these days External DVD drives are pretty cheap now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
isuckatfm Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Might be a silly question but let's risk it !Is using an emulator like Daemon Tools in such a case (CD bought in store for personal use only) legal ? This question have been asked on a french forum I'm moderating and I really don't know what to answer. Obviously, the easier way to play on netbooks or other small laptops is to buy the game online but what if it's too late already ? External drive aren't really handy but if it's the only other legal solution ... Don't know myself about the legality of it although I have vague memories of someone posting here that it was illegal. As for using Daemon when you install FM it installs with Securom which has a blacklist of programs it can discover are running and pop up the 'please insert original disc' message. But the patch may be bypassing this as prior to patching I'd get that message if I had Process Explorer running and started FM. It could just be that Process Explorer was removed from the blacklist though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 7 Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 http://fm08.footballmanager.net/en/article/101/1750.html Download from fm.net digital download. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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