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Printer Driver Problem

I've been unable to locate a good downlad to make my printer work. I have an old copy on a hard drive and was wondering where I can find it and if it's possible to copy and paste the driver onto my computer and make the printer work like it did with my old hard drive.

samiam41

You could always put the hdd (hard-drive) that contains the drivers as the slave and boot-up off of your existing hdd. Then when it prompts you for the drivers, choose the drive that corresponds to the one with the drivers on it.

Just curious, what is the make/model of this printer?

ojespinosa

ASKER

It's an HP PSC 2510 Photosmart. In your above example, will I have to keep the slave hard drive connected all the time?

samiam41

No. Just long enough to have the drivers installed. Then you could power the pc down, remove the drive and be good to go. It's just like a cd except a hdd.

ojespinosa

ASKER

Let me give it a shot. I've already got it set up like that.

samiam41

Perfect. Just make sure to direct the search for the drivers to that drive.

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ojespinosa

ASKER

Where will the driver be on the HDD?

samiam41

: )

Great question. Do you happen to remember if you downloaded the .exe file for the driver and dumped the .ini files to a particular directory? Perhaps you could search for various .ini files on that slaved drive.

segurah

If you can boot from your old drive, do that, then install Driver Max 3 or Driver Magician. Do a driver backup, then in new hdd do restore driver.

ojespinosa

ASKER

I found a lot of them. Will it be the "Configuration Settings" or the one with all the letters and numbers and ends with "file".

samiam41

You could download the drivers from the link I provided or you could look for the .ini file that corresponds to the drive model you have.

ojespinosa

ASKER

I've downloaded that driver so many times. It has all kinds of other stuff that get's downloaded with it. I think it's because it has a scanner and jump drive connections. Each time I downloaded that driver I could not get the printer to print correctly.

ojespinosa

ASKER

I used the link and found a work offered by HP. It worked great. Thanks for your responses.

samiam41

Thanks for the points and grade. Glad to see a resolution was found for this issue. Hope to see you around!