Restoring lost printer driver

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I have an older printer. I am trying to reinstall it after mucking things
up a bit with the manufacturer's printer driver. The MS driver that comes
with Windows has a problem, though. I have lost parts of it. When I bring
up server properties the driver is listed as being on my computer, but one
of the files <Deleted> is not on my computer. Yes, I know
how to change search settings to search for all hidden and system files.
This tells me I need to somehow restore the original MS driver. I assume it
is on my Windows XP disk. Does anyone know a procedure for restoring one
particular driver from the Windows disk?

When I try to install the printer through the Windows hardware wizard
there's some odd behavior that it would be pointless to go through. The
problem is restoring the driver.

 

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The "<Deleted>" below may look silly, but the reason I did it is because
if I leave the file name in the text, Microsoft's server thinks I am
illegally
posting a file and removes the message altogether.

"Larry Newhouse" <newhouse@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:OM87Y5QUFHA.3152@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I have an older printer. I am trying to reinstall it after mucking things
> up a bit with the manufacturer's printer driver. The MS driver that comes
> with Windows has a problem, though. I have lost parts of it. When I
> bring
> up server properties the driver is listed as being on my computer, but one
> of the files <Deleted> is not on my computer. Yes, I know
> how to change search settings to search for all hidden and system files.
> This tells me I need to somehow restore the original MS driver. I assume
> it
> is on my Windows XP disk. Does anyone know a procedure for restoring one
> particular driver from the Windows disk?
>
> When I try to install the printer through the Windows hardware wizard
> there's some odd behavior that it would be pointless to go through. The
> problem is restoring the driver.
>
>

 

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Larry Newhouse wrote:
> The "<Deleted>" below may look silly, but the reason I did it is because
> if I leave the file name in the text, Microsoft's server thinks I am
> illegally
> posting a file and removes the message altogether.
>
> "Larry Newhouse" <newhouse@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:OM87Y5QUFHA.3152@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>
>>I have an older printer. I am trying to reinstall it after mucking things
>>up a bit with the manufacturer's printer driver. The MS driver that comes
>>with Windows has a problem, though. I have lost parts of it. When I
>>bring
>>up server properties the driver is listed as being on my computer, but one
>>of the files <Deleted> is not on my computer. Yes, I know
>>how to change search settings to search for all hidden and system files.
>>This tells me I need to somehow restore the original MS driver. I assume
>>it
>>is on my Windows XP disk. Does anyone know a procedure for restoring one
>>particular driver from the Windows disk?
>>
>>When I try to install the printer through the Windows hardware wizard
>>there's some odd behavior that it would be pointless to go through. The
>>problem is restoring the driver.
>>
>>
>
>
>
I'd manually remove all references to the driver and reinstall. When
prompted for the location of the driver, point the wizard back to the
Windows CD.