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Robert Wright
Running XP Home. Two HP printers: LaserJet 5P on
parallel and DeskJet 932C on USB. Installed XP about a
week ago and it recognized both printers and loaded the
drivers from XP-base. USB printer went first. It just
disappeared from the Printers & Faxes screen in Control
Panel. Parallel printer was still recognized by XP but
could not load driver because "specified port is
unknown." Now the computer does not recognize either
printer. Booted WinME in other partition and ran both
printers with the same connections with no problem. This
appears to rule out a hardware issue. Tried one restore
to no avail. Tried safe mode to no avail. Can you
help?
parallel and DeskJet 932C on USB. Installed XP about a
week ago and it recognized both printers and loaded the
drivers from XP-base. USB printer went first. It just
disappeared from the Printers & Faxes screen in Control
Panel. Parallel printer was still recognized by XP but
could not load driver because "specified port is
unknown." Now the computer does not recognize either
printer. Booted WinME in other partition and ran both
printers with the same connections with no problem. This
appears to rule out a hardware issue. Tried one restore
to no avail. Tried safe mode to no avail. Can you
help?