transferring printer drivers between hard drives

Kevin1967

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Feb 17, 2014
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I need some advice on how to retrieve my Panasonic printer driver from one hard drive to another. I am using Windows 7 on both drives. The old drive did install the correct driver for my Panasonic kx-p2023 printer over 2 years ago. But now on my new drive windows searches for the driver, and never finds it. I realize this old dot matrix printer is old and installed on a parallel port, LPT1, so even with Windows 7 update, the driver may not be available anymore.

But this printer does work on my old drive, so if I can transfer the driver to my new drive, it should still work okay!
 
Solution
Is the parallel port enabled in the BIOS of the new machine? (sometimes it's disabled by default) According to MS, that printer is compatible with Windows 7, so it should work ...