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Conan, I humble myself to you. It worked. I looked all over HP and couldn't find it. Prob solved.:worship

There is no software for either XP or Win2000 for my scanner. The software has to be installed in Win 95, 98, or ME. Then upgrade to XP or Win2000. Then apply the patch. A clean install is not possible and still install software for the scanner. I'm beginning to loose my confidence in HP. I did reformat, installed the OEM bundle, (Win98se), then installed the scanner software. Ditched all the extra crap in the bundled software. Then upgraded to XP and applied the 654 patch. The scanner worked for a while. I don't understand why it quit.

I tried doing a clean install, but XP will not allow original software to install. The patches (there are two releases: 654 & 700)are just that...patches that have to installed on top of the original software. HP recommends using Win95, 98, ME to install the original scanner software, upgrading to XP, and installing the XP patch(es). Which I did and it worked fine for a while. At some point it stopped working. Now, when I try to access it, I get a faliure to communicate error. All the software is still intact.

I'm having a wierd promblem with my scanner. It's a HP 4200c. I had to upgrade from Win98se to XP to get the scanner to work. I installed the original scanner software in 98 and then upgraded to XP. Then I ran the XP patch for the scanner software. All per HP. Everything worked fine except it would only print 2 copies from the copy utility. Well, I was going to get around to addressing that prob, when I noticed the puter couldn't communicate with the scanner after a few weeks. All the software is still intact and I haven't switched USB ports or anything. I went through the troubleshooter, but as always it's useless. I did delete the Win98se cab files, but that would only effect reverting back to 98. I never had any probs like this with the scanner in 98. As a last resort, can I partition the slave drive with 2gigs and install 98se with the original scanner software or would this have to go on the master drive? Thanks for any help