An optical drive will connect to your laptop by USB and allow you to read your Noteworthy installation disc. They aren't very expensive - I found refurbished or "open box" units online for less than $30CDN.
Ha, ha, ha! That's the catch, Lawrie. Binsley wrote: no CD drive in the new PC!
No way to borrow a USB unit from a friend?
But, as David said, they're available for cheap. I actually have several usb DVD burners that would be perfectly fine for the job. Amazon has heaps from about $20AUD up.
Last post by Lawrie Pardy -
Further to David's reply, no, you shouldn't need to buy anything AFAIK.
The upgrade from 2.5 to 2.75 was a freebie. Simply install 2.5 from your CD, run NWC, and then click: Help|Access NoteworthyComposer.com* and it should take you to a relevant upgrade page.
Follow the prompts from there.
* The actual item might not be named exactly that but it will be informative, and I hope obvious. It's a while since I ran 2.5...
Last post by David Palmquist -
An optical drive will connect to your laptop by USB and allow you to read your Noteworthy installation disc. They aren't very expensive - I found refurbished or "open box" units online for less than $30CDN.
Last post by binsley -
Well, mine wasn't a crash, it was a recent burglary in which my Windows 10 laptop was stolen. I was happily running 2.75; I have the Status Key and installation CD from 2.5, and I guess I must have paid to upgrade it to 2.75 at some point, but I can't see any email history of this. I've just bought a replacement laptop (Windows 11) that I'm using to type this message - but of course, like most modern laptops it has no optical drive...
I had fairly recent backups of all my NWC work, but none of the software itself, sadly.
Do I have any other option but to buy a new 2.75 licence?
