A friend gave me their Dell Inspiron 530 desktop with Vista Home Premium 32 bit (never received an OS disc or made backups) and the printer mysteriously stopped working saying print spooler service not running. I checked for viruses upside-down and inside out and found nothing. The printer wasn't even showing in the Printers under Control Panel. The friend doesn't think they have the original CD so I removed the software through program Features and then downloaded the latest from HP's website. I get the following error at 94% mark of stage 3 installation.
Originally I got a fatal error (MSI 1603) after connecting the printe via USB and turning it on where it could not complete the setup.
After numerous unsuccessfully instals I uninstalled.
Also tried adding the printer using "Add Printer" function. At first get print spooler service not running. So I start it. Then get error 0x000006be and can't continue.
I tried installing my printer. When I tried to install the driver it said the Windows Print Spooler needed started. When I checked it the spooler service was set to automatic and started. I restarted it and still said spooler needed started.
Tried unregistering and registering the Msiexec but didn't help.
Ran MS Printer Issues FixIt and didn't solve.
After enabling MISI Installer log function I'm getting Error situation code 22094348
The following lines were retrieved from installation error logs.
Now launching= X:\hpzprl01.exe - inf -m preloadproductdrivers -1 XXX -f X:\DIVins??.DAT
SEtupINFsListedInDataFile failed with fatal error during installation.
Exit code=1603
Ran SFC Scan to check files and it found issues and corrected.
Please help.