After hard sisk crash driver not found for mega

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I had a hard drive crash. Reloaded XP on new hd (500G-WOW), loaded Arduino 1.0. When I plug in the mega I got error from windows. It started the new hardware dialog. It could not find a driver for the board. Should not the driver be loaded with the Arduino Environment? If not, where do I find it. Google did not help! Before I was using Arduino 022, should I go back?

Jim

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Which Mega? One with an 8u2 or FTDI chip?

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The one with FTDI

Jim

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Go to the driver source :slight_smile:

http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm

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CrossRoads:
Go to the driver source :slight_smile:

Drivers - FTDI

AARG! I went to the site, went to VCP Drivers, downloaded "Installation Guides". They said unzip driver file to a location on your disk. I unziped them to my downloads directory Then one step said" Select "Search for best drivers in these locations" and enter path "c:/cdm 2.02 02". There is no such directory! There was a directory in the downloads directory called "CDM20814_CHQL_Certified" so I entered that. There were 2 inf files( ftdibus, ftdiport and I tried both with same result. When I got back to search window nothing was there. Then I found these files are already installed in the Arduino directory. Tried those with same result.I could never get past this point.

Jim

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Then one step said" Select "Search for best drivers in these locations" and enter path "c:/cdm 2.02 02". There is no such directory!

The XP instructions are woefully out of date. I suggest you avoid them.

Was the directory "CDM20814_CHQL_Certified" or "CDM20814_WHQL_Certified"?

You want FTDIPORT.INF.

Is an error message produced? Or does the Hardware Wizard not let you continue?

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Coding Badly asked some questions. I'll have the answers tomorrow if snow allows.

Jim

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Due to other issues, I formatted the drive and reloaded Windows again and reloaded the drivers. Everything worked! It must have been a bad Windows installation.
jim

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Ugh. We're having a similar problem with a work computer. One of three recently installed commercial applications came with a very nasty worm. We're left with reloading the operating system to get rid of it.

But, enough of my troubles. I'm glad you have it working!