Yes it would but he asked how it could be done without such and so i told him that. If he has issues installing other software then I can't help him with that so much as he will just have to either replace or repair the optic drives that he is trying so hard not to use!

On a personal note....I have never in my life seen so many statements on installing operating systems on computers with no optical drives... or working optical drives. I have been working on computers for more years than most of these people have been alive and have computers as old with original optical drives still working...

Yes I know that they do go bad. Just seems to me to be a bit more than usuall here though!