An old question for me, but one that is still tedious in the extreme.
I love this printer, an industry standard unit. I was given this one virtually unused with the rollers etc still very pliable. This is a last ditch attempt to get it to go on my main OS.
The big question. Can I copy the driver (in all its installed parts) from the other drive, putting each piece in place manually, so to speak?
Where are the drivers located these days?
The old story for thems that are board:
One physical drive has XP Home Sp 2 and the driver loads exactly as is should. Everything works. But it is a much slower and smaller back-up drive.
Re-booting to change drives is an option, but tedious.
Second, bigger and faster drive, has XP Professional Sp 3 Now registered and updated. There is a listed driver in the menu, but it eventually asks me to put the XP disc in and then we go around the houses again...and again...and again.
HP's site offers a slew of drivers which are sent in a Zip file. These open into 30 or so DPP and DLL files. If I Browse to the folder, then they are not shown as options...in fact, they're not shown at all...and off round the houses yet again.
Gargoil shows free downloads. We've done that one on this forum. Driver Detective is unequivocal in the statement.
Free HP Laserjet 4 Plus driver. We go through until it wants to access my Visa card. To me, that's just blatant *******
If there is any other way to save the day, would someone let me know.
