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.

[monik]

I have got hp officejet 6310 all in one and Ive lost the software Cd and windows will not automatically find drivers which makes the printer useless.Does anyone know way of tackling this??
thanks in advance

[HayZee518]

CNET or DOWNLOADS dot com has drivers for d/l