logical drive as dvd drive - dvd

I am having a English learning DVD, i copy complete dvd into my hard disk then install that english learning software from hard disk, after i install i try to run the installed software it said your dvd is not into Dvd rom please insert dvd and they start play it.

"magic Disk" is the one to create virtual drive, works for me chilll

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Running SAS 9.4 from a flash drive

I have downloaded the SAS 9.4 suite on a flash drive. However, I do not have enough space on my hard disk to install SAS on my laptop.
Is there a way I can run SAS from my flash drive, instead of installing it on my laptop?
Operating system : Windows 10
Sort of? I have an external drive I've formatted (SSD/Flash) with an entire OS on it including SAS.
So I have VMware installed on my computer and it accesses the image file stored on the flash drive/SSD to run. You may even be able to do this with SAS UE. But you can also just use Academics on Demand which is cloud-based, assuming it's non-commercial usage and for learning.
EDIT: It's on a (256GB) flash drive that I keep on my computer because I don't really use the SD slot for anything else. It has Windows 10 on it because my main machine is a MacBook.

HD Detected as null When Installing El Capitan

I created a bootable image on a USB drive using this method:
https://www.macissues.com/2015/10/01/how-to-overcome-os-x-10-11-el-capitan-not-installing/
Basically, formatting a USB drive, calling it INSTALLER, and using a previously downloaded installer to create the bootable image on the thumb drive with this command:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/INSTALLER --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction
This seems to work, and the install process does indeed kick off after reboot, but now the problem is that when I get to the screen where I am asked to select which drive to install OS X on, I am given two choices: The INSTALLER drive (a USB drive I am booting from) and "(null)". The icon above (null) is that of a standard hard drive, so I select it and am given the error message that there is not enough space on (null) to install OSX.
So, first, that is not the name of the drive. And second, according to my disk utility I have over 140 gigs free on the drive so I know this is just a false error on the part of the installer.
So how to resolve? I have tried installing several times and I get the same result each time so I know it is not a one-off problem. Why is the hard drive detecting as (null)?
The 251 gig volume is a single volume with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, and currently is running Yosemite:
Symantec products are poison to Macs, it seems. What was happening in my case is that there was a product called Symantec Endpoint Encryption that had encrypted the entire drive, which was hiding it from the installer. Once I figured out how to decrypt the drive using the Symantec utility I was able to run the install without problems.
I hope this helps someone else. Good luck!

Running python3 from a usb drive (portably)

I want to run python3 on our school computers (under Windows) during our programming classes. I installed python 3.1 onto a USB flash drive at home (using Windows), and brought it to school. However, it gives me the following error:
The program can't start because python31.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
How do I get the file, where do I put it (can I put it onto the USB itself?) and/or is there a better alternative for python3 portability?
The reason why I don't simply use an online editor is because I also want to have pygame along with python on the USB.
If you installed python on your home PC "for all users" the .dll is in the c:\windows\system32\ (or equivalent).
Copy it to your USB drive folder or reinstall python "just for me" on the USB drive so it contains everything in one place.

Unable to install windows from usb flash, I get an error "setup was unable to create new system partition"

I have CD with window 7, I can install windows from this cd, but disc is't mine. So, I want to make a copy on my usb flash drive. I made iso copy of cd disc with WinISO, then I wrote this iso file on my flash drive with "Iso to Usb".
Now I try to install windows from this flash. I have 1tb hdd, I created 100gb partition and get 100gb partition, but when I did the same with with Windows cd disc, it creates 100 gb primary partition and 100 mb system partition.
So, when I tried to install windows in 100 gb partition from cd it installed, but when I tried to install from usb I got exception: "setup was unable to create new system partition".
Why so? Why I do the same steps and I can install from cd, but can't install from usb?
Why usb windows didn't create system partition? And how to fix it?
When installing using a flash-drive perform the following steps:
Step by step instruction:
When the boot setup starts from USB drive
Press Shift+F10
The command prompt will open.
In console type diskpart.exe and press enter. In this program execute following:
select disk=0. Disk 0 is your destination drive, so be careful, all information on this drive will be removed.
create partition primary size=xxx, where xxx – is the size of new partition
select partition=1
active
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit
4.exit
5.Now close the setup and restart.
This should solve your problem as it did mine.
Windows usually creates a partition with enought space for the system.
You can try to just take the 1tb HDD as target for installation, and windows will create a partition automatically.
Otherwise, your ISO-Copy may be corrupted.
You could easily download the ISO-Files from here.
Option: Make a Copy of the CD and try with that one?
Having installed windows 7 from a USB drive many times, I've found that if you're trying to install using a USB 3.0 flash drive, then you will get the "setup was unable to create new system partition" error message.
Since I couldn't find any solutions to this at the time, I was fiddling with everything to try to make it work. Eventually I found out an interesting (but strange) solution:
Go through the install process until you get to the screen that asks you to select a partition for the windows installation
Make sure your desired partition is listed, and that its formatted correctly
Unplug the USB drive
Press 'Refresh' (ONCE) to refresh the partition list/window (ONLY press refresh)
Plug the USB drive back in (use the same port as before)
Select the destination partition for the Windows installation, and try to begin the installation
I've done this a few times now on different machines, and it's worked like a charm.
I believe it has something to do with Windows 7 not natively supporting USB 3.0 and/or USB drives with SSD controllers.
Windows is probably seeing the USB drive as the main hard drive, because you have probably made it the first boot device in the BIOS. This will result in Windows trying to install to the install drive.
To solve this problem, make the internal HDD the first boot device, then press F12 or whatever key for boot device selection your BIOS requires.

copying an Apple Mac Hard Drive from a dead mac?

I have little experience with macs so I thought I would ask a quick question before I go ahead with this.
My friend's 6 year old mac desktop died the other day, she took it into the tech guys at the apple store to find out if she can get her documents back and they said no because the hard drive is in a different code you can't take it out.
That sounds like a load of crap to me so I want to rip out the hard drive and plug it into my PC then copy everything over. I also have access to linux if I need to.
So is there anything I need to know before doing this?
Thanks!
Assuming the hard drive itself isn't dead, you can get your hands on something like Ubuntu and copy all the files onto a different hard drive. You usually can't do this from windows because windows uses NTFS file system and will not recognize the mac file system (HFS or HFSPlus). Most flavors of linux can recognize mac hard drives and copy the contents. There can be some tricks with ownership of the files so here's a good post on how to do this in ubuntu:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-852144.html
Hope that helps!
If your friend plans on buying a new Mac, you should keep the disk itself; with an external HDD enclosure, a new machine (or a new OSX installation) will be able to migrate basically everything from the old drive.
Late answer, I know, but I just rescued a broken mac disk using dd_rescue, booting Trinity 3.4 on a HP and cloning the broken disk to a working disk. Then I popped the working disk into a working mac and hey presto, the user got the files back.

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