Can I use CD drive to read a DVD ROM office enterprise 07?

I have just received a MS office enterprise 2007 edition on DVD ROM and want
to load it onto my recently 'rebrained' desktop. The desk top is about 8
years old and only has a CD drive. During 'rebraining' the programs clogging
the memory were removed and placed onto an external drive but unfortunately
the operating systems were not retreived - thus I had to buy another set
because my discs were lost??

The PC runs OK and I can see all my word docs, xls, PP etc but cannot create
new, change etc.

When the new DVD ROM disc is inserted, there is no auto boot up.
I checked the CD drive via My Computer page and the drive shows nothing when
viewed.

Can I assume that DVD is incompatable with CD?
Are external USB ported DVD drives available that would allow me to load
this program? Do they work OK or would this be too slow through the USB1
ports on this PC?
I have an 80GB Acer Aspire PC with virtually nothing in memory at the moment.
Its a slug but thats what I can afford!

You need a dvd drive to read/use a dvd - or a combined dvd/cd drive

PS memory is random access memory (RAM) your Hard drive has disk space, and
since your PC is 8 years old you have WindowsXp & its updated? Office 2007
requires winxp, sp(1)?

"Sanmac" <Sanmac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsEB1ED07-8A75-4CAF-BF2E-1CF453823E2E@microsoft.com...
>I have just received a MS office enterprise 2007 edition on DVD ROM and
>want
> to load it onto my recently 'rebrained' desktop. The desk top is about 8
> years old and only has a CD drive. During 'rebraining' the programs
> clogging
> the memory were removed and placed onto an external drive but
> unfortunately
> the operating systems were not retreived - thus I had to buy another set
> because my discs were lost??
>
> The PC runs OK and I can see all my word docs, xls, PP etc but cannot
> create
> new, change etc.
>
> When the new DVD ROM disc is inserted, there is no auto boot up.
> I checked the CD drive via My Computer page and the drive shows nothing
> when
> viewed.
>
> Can I assume that DVD is incompatable with CD?
> Are external USB ported DVD drives available that would allow me to load
> this program? Do they work OK or would this be too slow through the USB1
> ports on this PC?
> I have an 80GB Acer Aspire PC with virtually nothing in memory at the
> moment.
> Its a slug but thats what I can afford!

Windows XP SP-2 minimum.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, DL asked:

| You need a dvd drive to read/use a dvd - or a combined dvd/cd drive
|
| PS memory is random access memory (RAM) your Hard drive has disk
| space, and since your PC is 8 years old you have WindowsXp & its
| updated? Office 2007 requires winxp, sp(1)?
|
| "Sanmac" <Sanmac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| newsEB1ED07-8A75-4CAF-BF2E-1CF453823E2E@microsoft.com...
|| I have just received a MS office enterprise 2007 edition on DVD ROM
|| and want
|| to load it onto my recently 'rebrained' desktop. The desk top is
|| about 8 years old and only has a CD drive. During 'rebraining' the
|| programs clogging
|| the memory were removed and placed onto an external drive but
|| unfortunately
|| the operating systems were not retreived - thus I had to buy another
|| set because my discs were lost??
||
|| The PC runs OK and I can see all my word docs, xls, PP etc but cannot
|| create
|| new, change etc.
||
|| When the new DVD ROM disc is inserted, there is no auto boot up.
|| I checked the CD drive via My Computer page and the drive shows
|| nothing when
|| viewed.
||
|| Can I assume that DVD is incompatable with CD?
|| Are external USB ported DVD drives available that would allow me to
|| load this program? Do they work OK or would this be too slow through
|| the USB1 ports on this PC?
|| I have an 80GB Acer Aspire PC with virtually nothing in memory at the
|| moment.
|| Its a slug but thats what I can afford!