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Save Software CD's on HD?

Now that MB's have turned to GB and now I have a TB of space I had a storage access question.

I am the owner, secretary and IT guru for my 10 person business so time is precious. I would like to use a single drive to store all my OS, MS Office and various other software packages on a external drive and be able to launch an installation from the HD, VS finding and using the CD's. Sounds a bit lazy, but when I have little time enough to run the business and spending a day sorting out 1 computer is a waste. Thus any easier faster way to reduce the time for a fresh install would be great.

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Storing cd's on a hard drive is a simple and good idea....Even on an external, new installs will go faster then if ran off a cd drive.

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Simply copy the cd to the HD in its own folder, i.e. XP Professional T60 Laptop, and it will not ask for a CD (I presume) during the install process as such what about having the software code as required for the installation? Any way to populate the code automatically? If not I can easily have a text file with the associated code. Thus, from you simple answer nothing really quarky about what I proposed?

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I put the key code in a text file....

The following would help with installing XP...I've never done it since I don't have any need for it.

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