trying to load drivers on to a ME system for things like printers etc. During the installation it would a box would come up and say things like cannot find hp565.sys or it might come up cannot find epsonabc526.sys and the installion of the drivers would stop. Any ideas...any one?

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Have you used the Browse button option to locate the printer install folder on the disk drive with the unlocated module and have it try again.

Normally printer install packages like these first create a temporary or install folder and extract all of these files in it. Third party ZIP programs that might be installed sometimes fail to create the correct folder structure. Sometimes you have to remind the install program where this folder is that the printer install package created, as Windows only knows where its own install folders are located. Worse, some of the printer install packages are so bad, they don't place some of their drivers in the correct folder because they are trying to support more than one operating system and don't test it very well on the different systems. With these you have to look around in their install folder and try several different locations within it.

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Hi jack, thanks for replying - it turns out system was an ME upgrade from 98. That was causing the problem.


On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 9:37 pm, Jack Gulley wrote:
>

Have you used the Browse button option to locate the printer install folder on
>the disk drive with the unlocated module and have it try again.
>

Normally printer install packages like these first create a temporary or install
>folder and extract all of these files in it. Third party ZIP programs that might
>be installed sometimes fail to create the correct folder structure. Sometimes you
>have to remind the install program where this folder is that the printer install
>package created, as Windows only knows where its own install folders are located.
>Worse, some of the printer install packages are so bad, they don't place some of
>their drivers in the correct folder because they are trying to support more than
>one operating system and don't test it very well on the different systems. With
>these you have to look around in their install folder and try several different locations
>within it.

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