Create an external USB-boot device

As is, it is not possible to erase your old laptop before discarding, unless booting it up and installing the software, or dismount the harddrive and mount it on a system with the software installed.
Would be a lot more handy with a boot-device, containing the software, making you able to erase any machine.

btw - not able to register software with the product key provided in the readme file...