Thanks, but I think you misunderstoo«d my message. I must unistall XP Pro
because it is an illegal copy (apparently) and as I cannot reinstall XP Home
without formatting the disk, I am going to lose information that I had
troublke getting in the past. I wonder if there is a method for backing up
the drivers of the printer and scanner.
JB
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> On 3/28/2010 4:43 AM On a whim, JB pounded out on the keyboard
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>> I need to install XP Home and for that I understand that I need to format
>> disk as at the moment I have XP Professional (which appears to be
>> illegal).
>>
>> When I installed the XP Prof I had a lot of trouble installing the
>> printer
>> and the scanner. Is there a way of copying the necessary files, so that
>> all
>> I have to do is to put them back after the reinstall?~
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> ~JB
>>
>>
>
> Hi JB,
>
> You should be able to do everything in XP Pro as you can in XP Home, and
> more. The only reason is you don't have the proper drivers most likely.
>
> Go to the device manufacturers website and do a search on the model number
> of your hardware. You should be able to download the correct driver for
> all of them.
>
> And save yourself the time of reinstalling the OS.
>
>
> Terry R.
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