thank you or replying and sorry you havent heard from me sooner but i went to bed having been up half the night trying to solvre this (still have no idea)
I have uninstalled the drives lots of times, the manual says install the drivers first, so i unzip the twain driver from te file i downloaded from epsom but it sends it to its own destination file it wont let me put it where i want to put it. ie on my desktop.,this is the same drivers i used which worked fine on xp pro, its only since put home on the problem started.