Installing a printer (USB)

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I'm installing a printer I bought at the weekend or rather, I'm not, because
it won't work. It's an hp photosmart 7260 and when it's plugged in it's
recognised as new hardware but then always wants the software installed when
it already has been. It shows in the system in control panel as an other
device with an exclamation. Have exactly the same problem trying to install
the Nokia software with a DKU-5 data cable :-(
A usb pen and digital camera plug in fine and work well.
Grateful for any ideas.
 
The main problem I've encountered when installing some USB devices is when
you allow the installation to find & install "XP compatible drivers" from
your system.

To eliminate this, I normally leave the device powered off during the
software installation, then when it reaches the stage of looking for
drivers, point it to the installation CD instead.
 
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