How to Transfer From a CD to a Memory Card. If you have some important business data on a CD and need it on your cell phone or other portable device, you must find a way to transfer it from the CD ...

While burning a CD image to a blank disc is standard usage procedure, businesses can also copy the raw container or its extracted contents to a memory stick for such storage purposes.

An alternative is to put the software CD into your old computer, copy the application to a temporary directory, copy that to a flash drive, then install it on your new computer.