Tech help - copying discs to USB key

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Hope the board can help with this.

I've got a shiny 4GB USB pen drive, and I want to copy my (owned, legit) Baldur's Gate onto it so that I can play the game on my desktop and laptop.

I can install the game onto the key (it's my L: drive) and it runs fine so long as I have the CD in the drive. That, however, defeats the purpose - I want to carry the game on the USB if I can and, anyway, my laptop has no CD or DVD drive.

Without the CD to access, I get an error saying I should insert the CD.

IS there any way I can copy the CD onto the USB pen drive and run it from there? I'd rather not go looking for a no-CD crack.

Cheers for any help.

[I, Cosh]

You could try making disc images and use daemon-tools to simulate a virtual CD drive which you can then load with the image from the memory stick.

No idea if that would work, but it's the best I can come up with.

[Wils]

I'd be a bit dubious about actually running any software off a pen drive, though, as (IIRC) they tend to have a finite number of Read/Writes. Unless things have changed now...