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ARADURS

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:55 pm
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Any help appreciated...

Wish to replace a printer driver on my old non-internet Windows 98 pc.

Using a Windows XP PC have downloaded the appropriate driver from Hewlett
Packard printer..then copied it onto a CD-RW by dragging and dropping the HP
file onto the CD drive icon...all ok and this file can be viewed ok when
loaded onto another XP machine.

However, when inserting the CD into the CD drive of the W98 pc get the
message:-

E is not accessible. The driver is not ready!

Don't know why or how to sort this.

Thanks, Dave
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:38 pm
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"ARADURS" <DS@NOMAIL> wrote in message
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> Any help appreciated...
>
> Wish to replace a printer driver on my old non-internet Windows 98 pc.
>
> Using a Windows XP PC have downloaded the appropriate driver from Hewlett
> Packard printer..then copied it onto a CD-RW by dragging and dropping the
HP
> file onto the CD drive icon...all ok and this file can be viewed ok when
> loaded onto another XP machine.
>
> However, when inserting the CD into the CD drive of the W98 pc get the
> message:-
>
> E is not accessible. The driver is not ready!
>
> Don't know why or how to sort this.
>
> Thanks, Dave
> ------------------
>
>
Do you have the same CDRW sofware on the 98 machine?

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:38 pm
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On Tue, 23 May 2006 21:38:27 GMT, "dawg" <don't look.TakeThisOut@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>
>"ARADURS" <DS@NOMAIL> wrote in message
>news:1148406950.732120@ntop.griffin.com...
>> Any help appreciated...
>>
>> Wish to replace a printer driver on my old non-internet Windows 98 pc.
>>
>> Using a Windows XP PC have downloaded the appropriate driver from Hewlett
>> Packard printer..then copied it onto a CD-RW by dragging and dropping the
>HP
>> file onto the CD drive icon...all ok and this file can be viewed ok when
>> loaded onto another XP machine.
>>
>> However, when inserting the CD into the CD drive of the W98 pc get the
>> message:-
>>
>> E is not accessible. The driver is not ready!
>>
>> Don't know why or how to sort this.
>>
>> Thanks, Dave
>> ------------------
>>
>>
>Do you have the same CDRW sofware on the 98 machine?

Right. It sounds like he's using a UDF format - something not natively
supported by Win98. Probably easier to just erase, then burn & finalize a
single session on the same cdrw disk...
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 6:55 am
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OK TVM D
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"daytripper" <day_trippr.RemoveThis@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 23 May 2006 21:38:27 GMT, "dawg" <don't look.RemoveThis@worldnet.att.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"ARADURS" <DS@NOMAIL> wrote in message
>>news:1148406950.732120@ntop.griffin.com...
>>> Any help appreciated...
>>>
>>> Wish to replace a printer driver on my old non-internet Windows 98 pc.
>>>
>>> Using a Windows XP PC have downloaded the appropriate driver from
>>> Hewlett
>>> Packard printer..then copied it onto a CD-RW by dragging and dropping
>>> the
>>HP
>>> file onto the CD drive icon...all ok and this file can be viewed ok when
>>> loaded onto another XP machine.
>>>
>>> However, when inserting the CD into the CD drive of the W98 pc get the
>>> message:-
>>>
>>> E is not accessible. The driver is not ready!
>>>
>>> Don't know why or how to sort this.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Dave
>>> ------------------
>>>
>>>
>>Do you have the same CDRW sofware on the 98 machine?
>
> Right. It sounds like he's using a UDF format - something not natively
> supported by Win98. Probably easier to just erase, then burn & finalize a
> single session on the same cdrw disk...
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