Copy the full contents of the game to a folder on an external drive with enough capacity to hold all

The disk, but I kept the CD in the drive during the process). Should work (I've had to do this because of DRM issues that prevented a couple of games from installing from ( I haven't actually done done the following without the disk in a CD drive, or from an external drive, but it Most games run a CD check for the key code eachīut you look like an honest type, and it's only fair you should be able to play what you paid for. Have the CD in the drive to install or play the game. It may have been a given, in the days prior to game downloads, that you needed to

'I would also like to point out that on the 'System Requirements' for the game, a CD drive is not listed as something required by my system in order to play this game.'