This article is about how to install your Mustek scanner driver.

I have a really old Mustek Scanmagic 600 Cp scanner, but it works, and i got a used HP LaserJet 6L printer. This combo is very useful, if you are working with computers, and sometimes you need to email something with your sign, like domain registrations, etc…

I reinstalled my machine two month ago, and now i need my scanner.
I tried to use my previously downloaded drivers, but it sad:  “Corrupt installation media detected”.

Crap. No problem, maybe the files are crashed let’s go and download again. I downloaded from the official Mustek webpage:
http://www.mustek.com.tw/Download/driv_scanr/html/europe.html

The same shit happens. I tried to download it from several sites, and the result was always this error message.
What do i wrong? I asked myself. Maybe my newly installed COMODO firewall/antivirus software chop the files, so i disable it, but this error appears again. I tried to download it with an ftp client, what i set to binary mode, but fail again.

I tired the Win2K drivers, just because of frustration of me, no success again.

I am a developer, programmer, and i have a tons of softwares on my machine, maybe there are conflicts with some of them. I ran my VMPlayer virtual machine, with a clean install of XP with SP3.

The installer doesn’t gives me this error, and start to extract the files! The gladness was too early. I’ve get another error message:
“This installer is only for Windows XP”.

What the hell? I am running Windows XP, and it sad, it is only for XP, but doesn’t run. What a mess.
And then i started to think, and i thought, maybe some version conflict should be here, but i am not sure.

So, the solution was, to start the XP in safe mode, and install the driver.
This time, under safe mode there was no error message, and the driver installed, as it should. After this i restarted my computer, and viola, Mustek scanner now works.