I wanted to put a second monitor (jcreate JUA190 VGA USB 2.0 Display Adapter) on my sister's Dell pc. But the CD tray won't open so I can't put the CD with the installation wizard on it. So I heard I can make a bootable USB flash drive from the CD.

I have Unetbootin but when I try to get the disc on there I can't. (It breaks it down into the folders and files on the disc.)

I read here of somebody having the same problem http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/27...bootable-flash but I don't know if it'll work.

And I heard about something called Rufus. https://rufus.akeo.ie/ But I'm a newbie and don't really know if that's the way to go either.

Any way to do it?

Thanks very much.

can you do that on a linux computer? then i would suggest just dd'ing the cd to the usb; maybe like this:

sudo dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/sdX

where sdX is your usb.

Thanks ondoho. (First off, I should've said I'm installing the second monitor on a Windows computer.)I tried what you suggested.I switched /dev/sdX to /dev/sdb1 and ran the command. It copied it and it even changed the name on the flash drive (to the name of the disc), but when I went to look at it, it said there was an error and I couldn't read it. Then I put the usb flash drive in the Windows computer it said it needed to be formatted. So I brought it back to my xubuntu and put it in and this time it read it but all the files and folders had lock icons on them.

I also turned the disk into an .iso via Brassero then turned that .iso into a bootable usb drive via Unetbootin, but that usb drive didn't boot when I put it in the Windows computer.

Since this is a Windows software installation disc I assume it would be configured to autorun but not need to be bootable. Does the quick installation guide actually say boot from disc?

I would just copy the files from CD to the USB drive, insert it into the windows computer and run the setup program.

In addition, depending on what version of Windows is running when you plug in the adapter the drivers could be automatically installed or downloaded from the internet.

Why sdb1? You want to put it on sdb.

Thanks Michalek. I did copy the installation disk onto a usb drive and put it into the Windows computer. It did not auto run. It just did the typical 'what do you want to do with this' window. I then (in the My Computer area) right clicked on the usb drive icon and it gave some choices and the only plausible one was "autoplay" and so I chose that but that just wanted to open the file with Windows Media Player so I figured that was a no go.

Yeah, the installation guide's first step is: "Insert the Driver CD into the drive; the setup program should launch automatically."

I found this software called Win To Flash that looks perfect for converting the CD into a bootable USB drive but the website is in Russia and suspicious. https://forums.malwarebytes.org/inde...re-what-to-do/ So I passed on that.

Then there's this thing called FlashBoot http://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/ but I didn't know if that was the way to go either.

See, if I was doing it for myself I'd be bolder but it's for my sister's (the second monitor, that is) computer and she uses her computer for business and a virus would shut her down. (And have her kill me. LOL)

I can wait till Monday when the 800# comes back up (on the CD wizard disk) and see what they might suggest. And of course I could replace the cd tray but I'm not that handy and my sis never (until now--LOL) uses the CD tray.

And I do (obviously) have access to her computer (Windows 7) (I'm running Xubuntu 15.10 on mine). And I also came across this site with all these software programs that might work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ve_USB_systems

I just looked at what Gparted was calling the USB drive and that was /dev/sdb1. I'm a newbie. That was the best I could figure. I thought the "X" in your command suggestion was like a 'fill in the blank with the proper usb drive name' sort of thing.

Do you think I should try it again and if so, can you tell me exactly, and the "code" feature helps, what to put in the command line?

autorun is completely different from a bootable disk of which neither is really required for installing the software.

Just use the windows file explorer and click on the flash drive. Look at the files and there should be a setup program. All you need to do is double click on it to install the software. If you can not determine which is the setup program then post the drive's contents.

I had to do this all the time to install software on laptops that did not have a CD drive or were networked.

Sorry for the late reply. (Life took over.) I did what you said and it worked. Thanks very much.