Go in the control panel and click on Scanners and Camera and see if you see the Canon scanner icon there. I you installed the software correctly, you should see the icon there. Click it and it will activate the scanner and you can use it from the menu you are presented with.
Your printer is hosed (unlikely, but possible) - windows filesystem is hosed due to growing bad disk blocks (quite possible, after 1-2 years system becomes corrupted and unusable, standard thing with hard disks. - printer firmware needs upgrading - contact support ti find out how. - printer is not compatible with XP?
Doubtful to solve bad disk blocks problem, run spinrite. Spinrite you must put sata controller into IDE mode in order to boot. Also, 6.1 which has sata support will be a free upgrade.
$89 and you will probably get your data back. Mode 2 (default).
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