DPInst error with Windows 2000

Hello,

I'm using DPInst.exe to Preinstall FTDI USB drivers during installation of
our software. Yesterday I downloaded the latest WDK (7.0.0) to update my
DPInst.exe Version. When I tried to install the USB drivers on Windows 2000
SP4 DPInst.exe ended prematurely with the message "No suitable driver files
for your platform found…". On Windows Vista I was able to successfully
install the same driver package with this version of DPInst.exe. With the
version of DPInst.exe I have been using up to now, I'm able to install the
driver package on Windows 2000.
When I checked the versions of the two DPInst.exe files (Explorer -> right
click ->Properties) I found something curious:
The version of DPInst.exe I'm using, and which is working with Windows 2000,
has version 2.1.1.0. (I'm quite sure it is from the Windows Server 2008 WDK)
The version of DPInst.exe from the WDK 7.0.0, which I downloaded yesterday,
has version 2.1.0.0.

WDK 7.0 is the first release that does _not_ support win2k.
Try a previous WDK (6000.x or v.1830)

--pa


"Georg Krebelder" <Georg > wrote in
message news:6D119E04-6905-4623-B7C1-...
> Hello,
>
> I'm using DPInst.exe to Preinstall FTDI USB drivers during installation of
> our software. Yesterday I downloaded the latest WDK (7.0.0) to update my
> DPInst.exe Version. When I tried to install the USB drivers on Windows
> 2000
> SP4 DPInst.exe ended prematurely with the message "No suitable driver
> files
> for your platform foundâ?¦". On Windows Vista I was able to successfully
> install the same driver package with this version of DPInst.exe. With the
> version of DPInst.exe I have been using up to now, I'm able to install the
> driver package on Windows 2000.
> When I checked the versions of the two DPInst.exe files (Explorer -> right
> click ->Properties) I found something curious:
> The version of DPInst.exe I'm using, and which is working with Windows
> 2000,
> has version 2.1.1.0. (I'm quite sure it is from the Windows Server 2008
> WDK)
> The version of DPInst.exe from the WDK 7.0.0, which I downloaded
> yesterday,
> has version 2.1.0.0.
>