Well let’s start from the beginning: My boss’s stepdaughter has an old Piece of C in dire straits, but it connects to the internet just fine through a linksys WMP54GS wireless network adapter, slow, but it works. So I decided to give the sweet lassie my old PC. I had an extra Maxtor 30 GB HD laying around so I formatted it and put on a copy of Windows XP Pro SP2 and updated it. I put this HD into an old Dell with a few good years left in it, 312MB of RAM with a 1.6 GHz Pentium processor, still a Piece of C but FAR better than what the poor girl had. I came to hook it up and set up her old 8 GB Quantum Fireball with 237MB free space as the slave drive. I plugged in the wireless adapter from the elder and turning on her new machine ran through the found new hardware wizard. I used the disk that came with the adapter and set it to auto pilot when it tells me there was an installation error: the system cannot find the file specified. Maybe it’s the disk I thought, so I downloaded the driver from linksys and unzipped it to c:\linksys driver. Ran the wizard again and told it to use the specific driver file and got the same message. So I booted up the slave drive and sure enough the adapter worked just fine. So I got the driver details from that Device manager, found it, and copied it over to the other hard drive but when I tried to send the wizard to it I received the same error message again. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled everything 500 times but still the same thing. Linksys was no help either. So I thought maybe my new friends in the tech republic could help me out. So how about it? I have the driver. I know it works. The card is physically installed correctly. Yet still the wizard says it “cannot find the file specified.” Please help poor Amy get a computer that she can actually use. For now I guess I’ll set the old HD as the master and she’ll just have to suffer through some more. And she never complained.
