Strum,

If the disk states that it will work on ME, then maybe the disk is faulty. I'd try the manufacturers or supplier for a replacement disk. Also worth trying is cleaning the disk drive with a cleaning CD.

As for downloading the drivers needed, you have nothing to lose by going a-googling for the MP3 make etc.

Dave

Are you on the tablets again?

128 Mb - wouldn't that be the amount memory she has?
200 Mb - that would be the full set of drivers etc for the player, and it's the file size. Nothing to do with memory.

Yup - I reckon that resources are the drivers. Wouldn't think that ME will need 200 Mb of space for the driver it needs though. They would possibly be extracted from a cab file from the CD (if it worked).

Dave (not Jan, and all male)

I read it that the error message was telling you that it couldn;t find the resources needed for ME on the CD. Hence my suspicion that trhe CD was faulty (or the drive not reading it properly).

When you installed on XP, it would be looking on the CD for different resources.

Dave

No, you don't need any other software besides drivers for lots of hardware. Take for example, video cards and the drivers for them.

All you need is to install the drivers from a specific location, either a CD, or from a location on your hard drive.

 The MP3 player would be a different scenario, but if you connect it to a USB port, Windows should then recognise it as new hardware and look for the drivers. In the dialogue box that comes up, you can specify where Windows should look for them. That will be wherever you have saved the drivers to - like on your own CD, flash drive or on the hard drive.

Windows should then install the files it needs into the system folders and/or registry as apropriate.

Similar thing for a printer - Windows has a set of drivers for many printers, and they will work from them. You might not get the makers extra facilities, like maintenance and monitoring for the printer, buit it will still print using a generic set of drivers.

Does that help?

Dave