FOAK - Windows 98 help

My old printer died and I've bought an HP printer/scanner/photocopier
thingie. I've installed it OK, but there was no room on disk C, so I
put it on disk D. It says it got installed OK, but from Word, I can't
find it. When I used the Word wizard, it wanted to install all over
again, but a) I know it's there and b) there isn't room on disk C.
Help!

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No - it's not there. :-( How do I make it look at D? I'd rather use it
on D if I can.

I hate downloading software - it always goes wrong. However, I've
deleted everything I can, which was a lot, actually, and now have 34MB
free, which I don't think is enough space to re-install the printer on
C. I have also defragmented C. How can I use the masses of space I
have on the D drive? Can I move stuff over and still be able to see
it?

Thanks.

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It might be that the software is dependant on installiong some stuff on the
C. In which case you might hit problems.
What I was suggesting is that using Treesize, you could identify a lot of
stuff that is taking up the disk space.
34Mb is nothing. How big is the drive? Perhaps you should also consider
reinstalling applications having first uninstalled them, on D.

Look, I have a freeware copy of treesize, that doesnt require install,
unlike the one on their webpage - you just run it from where you got it -
like off an email.
If you want to send me your real email to
(its just hotmail, of course) and I will send the early copy to you, it runs
without installer and you just select the drive you wish to examine and it
reports where your disk stuff is most taken up. Voila.

The fact it doesnt show the printer, tends to indicate that it hasnt
installed. The only other thing you might do is try and manually install it.
Say dont detect, then if its on LPT1 (usual for parallel, unless its a usb
printer) select that, make sure its hooked up of course and powered on, and
select the driver for that printer. Windows 2000 etc tends to have most the
drivers for them, not sure about yours maybe it DOES need specific drivers
to work.

Anyway sort the C first, I would otherwise you could have loads of other
issues BESIDES printing. Maybe even get a system chappy who kind enough to
do somethjing like install a single partition (if its one huge disk) and
GHOST everything back to a single large nice C image. Lovely jubbly.

Tony

 

Tony wrote:

Rought guess, the monirotring software is in place, but not the drivers
themselves. They will almost certainly have to go on C, so some
housekeeping is really needed.

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TonyF wrote

I suggest that if she has run that much out of space that she can't fit
a set of printer divers and stuff on drive C she needs a bigger drive
and having a clear out will only mask the problem for a very short
period of time.

kin pikeys.

 

I've got loads of space on drive D, thank you very much, I just can't
seem to access it.

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Good for you and all your space on D:. Dont say we didnt warn you.
Listen carefully. I will say zis only once.
I anticipate the C Drive is the 'kin problem not the D. Forget the D. You
need to free the C:\ space particulary if this is the boot drive and windows
system volume.

Lets just pretend for a minute, that you could install it on C:. You
operating system will probably run for about 2 minutes until it
spews out because its running out of space. Unless of course your OS is
installed on D:? Would you happen to know this?
Which disk has the Windows or winnt folder on?
Or is it wisely hidden from your view?

I think its best you take you computer to a systems builder who can help
you, unless you can use that
tool I mentioned to free the space.
In fact why dont you go ahead and download that TreeSize I talked about and
install it to D: seeing as you have so much space there.
Then get it to report on C and see where the big amounts are. I'll even
suggest how you do this, if you can bother to do it.
It will uninstall quite easily and cleanly as its only a small program,
after you finished with it.
Then you can intelligently decide whether there is something that can be
deleted/uninstalled from your system to help with what is probably, a C:
problem.

Anyway, whats the properties of C:? How big is it? What on earth do you need
installed on C anyway besides your
operating system thats taking the room? Something like autoroute which could
be uninstalled and made to run off the CD?
Tried taking some games off ?or whatever's hogging the space?

Is it possible you're D: is a seperate physical disk? If so you wont be able
to "make" any more space from C, and like its been wisely mentioned, you
could need a disk drive upgrade.
Do you know what I am talking about? If not perhaps you need to
take it to someone who does, it shouldnt take them long to sort it out, if
they are any good.

I think we are all doing our best to help you, just you need to listen.

Tone

 

marina wrote

That's no bloody good is it. Certainly not if windows is on the C drive
and you are running some legacy version which still insists on having
stuff where it can find it rather than where you want it.

The basic rule in systems admin is that if yer drive, albeit for data or
operating system, gets less than 10% free then you buy a new one and
transfer.

This is a different problem entirely and probably bugger all to do with
printer drivers.

 

Been a long time since I've felt the need to do this...

<SLAP> You patronising twat. Some ukrmers have IMO earned the right to
take that attitude. You IMO haven't. <continue SLAP>

 

Lady Nina wrote

I can do patronising.

 

Tony secured a place in history by writing:

<Snip>

Loads of incoherent and amateurish PC advice
Patronising drivel

</Snip>

You'll get slaughtered in here you know. There are a couple of people who
do this shit for a living.

Hmmm. This kind of approach may attract attention. Swear words and
everything.

 

IANAD NDIPOOTV.

 

I was going to say I didn't swear but twat still counts as swearing
right? I'm swearing far more now in RL since posting to ukrm and dang
it feels good.

 

Lady Nina wrote

I do have a camera.

 

Heh. I giggled at that. I know someone who can provide the service you
require for a fee.

 

Lady Nina secured a place in history by writing:

I like twat (semantically). It says 'I'm not given to swearing on the
whole, but I'm going to push the boat out and say something I might regret'
in a restrained kind of way, hence maintains the upper hand. I think. But
I might be a bit pissed. And it's a nice word, it has strong idiot / moron
connotations without being too abrasive. I'd use it freely at work, so it's
probably not what I'd call a proper swear word.

**** is a proper swear word, and I find myself using it a lot more as a
result of regular UKRM exposure. It's an excellent swear word to admonish
mild transgression, because its 'the worst swear word', so it's application
for tiddly misdemeanours is just fucking funny, frankly. Oops, another
swear word. Anyway, I like **** (semantically).

Anyway: You go girl. Or something equally patronising, in order to
maintain the theme...

 

Lady Nina wrote

So do I as it goes and for that I have to thank Champs.

It was him that pointed out, because he knows about this sort of stuff,
that you can get hookers on the net. So I googled and **** me if there
isn't one in Billericay.

Although to be frank I was thinking more along the lines of me doing the
fee charging but there you go.

 

That's exactly the level I was aiming for. Excellent.

Pure alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. These ramblings are brought to
you by insomnia.

I work with a bunch of humourless cunts. I remember when the public
sector was cutting edge, full of intelligent, thoughtful people I
admired. The guy I'm PAing for is one of these but the rest of them
have come through the PC loops and it has taken the heart out of it.
No more black humour. I'm glad it's temporary.

I'm considering using it in front of my mother.

I hear you sister.

Having had lunch on Thursday with an American Christian then dinner on
Friday with another American Christian, I can whoop and holler with
the best of them. They take their religion seriously yet at least one
of them seemed to know so little about it. As the other one is a
theologian it was perhaps unfair competition.

 

Lady Nina wrote

Mine uses it in front of me. Kinnel I was 14 before I found out it
weren't me proper name.

 

Lady Nina secured a place in history by writing:

Which bit of the public sector do you work in?

Temporary because? Or are you just assuming PCness is a cyclical thing? (I
agree)

My Mum uses it more than me. Middle-class woke up to the world growing old
disgracefully pensioner sort of Mum, it suits her.

I spend too much time in Texas. A frightening proportion of Texans claim
some Christian allegiance, and a frighteningly larger proportion would
struggle to justify it IME. And let's get some perspective on this, they
are all fat as ****, so clearly have no control of anything, let alone the
thought process surrounding religious allegiance.....