HP scanner install....

[HayZee518]

OK, I finally got the 4600 back to where it was (almost) as I said before I had to re-install windows xp off a clean reboot - chosing re-partition the hard drive and install off the cd rom. Installation took 39 minutes and using the factory disk was windows xp with sp1. I had to re-install the drivers off the special blue disks that dell supplied when I bought the machine. THEN over the span of three days, I got critical upgrades from microsoft automatically when I was online. I still had to install a java console JRE 1.5.2 to get pogo games to work. I got sp2 from microsoft - this was the longest 90 megabytes long - took 13 hours for the download on a 56K dialup. I run yahoo IM for a messenger program, their software took about 4 hours to d/l. I use avast for a virus checker - why not it's totally free and does much more than mcafee or norton. I get upgrades about every three or four days. I have some hard issues with callwave. When I get online, IT has to boot up before any browser will load other wise nothing will load up and I get an error.

[mrcaptainbob]

You've made better headway than I, HayZee. Am waiting for HP info. WIfe is NOT happy with me!

[HayZee518]

if it is any consolation to you I had to do a full system recovery on my wife's presario just a week before mine crashed. the recovery disks were on that partition on the hard drive so about a year ago I made up a set of ten disks for system recovery. after reboot you'd press F12 to go into a system recovery segment and use disk one, two etc until it was finished. I had the disks for her hp printer and a us robotics modem so used those to get it going again. my regular dialup terminal was gone so I went into my network connections and set up a new connection using the wizard. after that I d/l firefox and set up my regular isp,s homepage. but she uses ie6 so that part was easy. compaq's recovery already had win xp sp2 on it.