Try
www.driveragent.com. Let it do its free scan of your pc so you can get
the name of it, then do a search on HP's site for it. Downloading drivers
from their site is a pay service ($29 a year) but the scanning is free.
"jel183(UK)" wrote:
> "Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Try using the Add Hardware wizard
> >
> > If HP has it on their site available download it, and when you use the
> > wizard>either install manually from a list if it's on the list, or search
> > automatically>click have disk>then you don't need to use a physical disk
> > (misleading wizard category thanks to MSFT) simply type in the file path
> > where you have downloaded the HP driver.
> >
> > or
> >
> >
> > See if MSFT Update can find your driver
> >
> >
> > CH
> >
> > "jel183(UK)" <> wrote in message
> > news:...
> >> Having messed about for a number of days trying to get Vista to access my
> >> HP
> >> PSC 1317 on my home network I seem to have somehow 'lost ' the native HP
> >> Vista drivers - when I plug the PSC directly into the PC, VISTA it can no
> >> longer find the drivers- it did it OK before I started out! No HP
> >> drivers are available when I manually select a driver from the
> >> installation
> >> list...
> >>
> >> Can I extract the HP drivers from the Vista Installation DVD and re
> >> install
> >> them? Or can someone give me some direction on how to proceed...
> >>
> >> A System Restore has been tried - and failed.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> jel183(UK)
> >> Vista Ultimate x86
> >> MS Office 2003 Standard Edition
> >
>
>
> Thanks for your reply, but I have tried these suggestions, I cant find the
> driver on the HP site to down load... I keep being told that it is available
> within Vista, there are no HP drivers in the drop down selection - hence my
> need to either extract and reinstall from the Vista DVD or find the hp
> download site...
>
> --
> jel183(UK)
> Vista Ultimate x86
> MS Office 2003 Standard Edition
>
>