Plug and Play

Discussion in 'Software' started by Trihimbulus, Jul 1, 2003.

  1. Trihimbulus

    Trihimbulus Private E-2

    Can ANYONE tell me how I can get to Plug and Play in XP?? I just bought a USB iriver hardrive/mp3 player - but am using it for the 64mb's. But anywyas, I need to know how to find, get to, and use Plug and play so i can access the iriver's HD on other computers at school. Help!!!!!!!!!!
     
    Trihimbulus, Jul 1, 2003
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  2. exeter_acres

    exeter_acres Sergeant

    Huh??/
    I don't understand..is your computer not recognizing the drive?? Did you get any drivers with it??

    I'm just not getting what you are trying to ask?
     
    exeter_acres, Jul 1, 2003
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  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    XP is Plug n Play ready so you should be able to just plug the USB cable in and a small icon in the system try alerts you to a new hardware item found.... if it needs drivers XP will alert you to this so you can put your driver disk in...... if not in most cases XP will assign a Mass Storage driver so all you have to do is go into My Computer and see the Removeable Drive listed.......


    *I never need to install any drivers for my digicam to work, I just use Xps mass drive it assigned.*



    Are both your School PCs and your Home PC using XP?
     
    DavidGP, Jul 1, 2003
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  4. Trihimbulus

    Trihimbulus Private E-2

    Well, the thing is I have a disk for it, but im gonna bring it to school and i want to upload/download files onto it without having to install teh disk/ what the hell do i do lol
     
    Trihimbulus, Jul 1, 2003
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  5. da chicken

    da chicken MajorGeek

    The OS needs to have the drivers for the device. All Plug and Play does is let the device be detected automatically and the drivers be installed automatically. If there aren't any usable drivers for that device, PnP doesn't help.

    Copy the device drivers to a floppy (or burn them to CD) and bring that, or download the drivers from the manufacturer's website when you're at school.
     
    da chicken, Jul 2, 2003
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  6. DOA

    DOA MG's Loki

    Have you tried it?
    My camera has native support in XP and works without drivers through the USB connection as a hard disk.
     
    DOA, Jul 2, 2003
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  7. Trihimbulus

    Trihimbulus Private E-2

    Yeah, the files are too big for me to put on a floppy. The computer recognizes my new hardware, but i cant get a direct file to it to save files. Oh well....
     
    Trihimbulus, Jul 2, 2003
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  8. da chicken

    da chicken MajorGeek

    Burn it to a CD. (The drivers, that is.)
     
    da chicken, Jul 3, 2003
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