That's what this week's PhotoTips article is about. I've had Vista on my laptop for some time now, but had stuck with Windows XP for the computer I do most of my work on in order to avoid compatibility problems with Vista.
One can only do that for so long though. As such, I'm working to retire Windows XP and have replaced it with a new quad core bit Vista system. Progress marches on. But this meant that I now had to deal with what I had put off. Not only have I been busy reinstalling everything on the new workstation, I've had to figure out what to do about things that don't want to run on Vista.
One stubborn item was my Nikon LS scanner. Nikon does support Nikon Scan on bit versions of Vista, but not bit. I guess Nikon feels progress doesn't always have to march on after all.
Keeping my old workstation around just for the sake of a slide scanner seemed a bad option since I haven't even shot film in quite some time now. But I do still have quite a few slides from when I did so dispensing with the scanner all together seemed like an even worse idea. Ed Hamrick's VueScan works on Vista x64 but seemed to still need Nikon drivers which remained out of reach. I wasn't thrilled with the prospect of buying VueScan anyway since I already had and was familiar with NikonScan.
That lead me to spend an evening doing some Google searching to see if anyone else had found an answer to my dilemma. Eventually I came across a post on photo. It seemed as if the author had indeed been on a similar quest to my own and had gotten his LS to work.
I have nikon scan working under W7 64x OS. Got the drivers from Adaptec. Got the smarts from Barry. Got it working! There are several SCSI adapters you may get running with Windows 7, but only with the bit edition. You have to check wich SCSI adapters are supported with Windows Server R2 and use the drivers from a trial downoad of that operating system, they work perfectly with Windows 7 x Rudolf Uhlmann am 3 Sep in de.
There is no zip file within this download. I cannot find the files you metion that must be used for manual installation in Windows 7.
So I'm afraid I missed something with the download from adaptec. Where did you find the ASPI you used for your installation, please? Could you please tell me the URL? Thank you, and have a great day. Burningman from Switzerland. When I access them the using either Nikon or Silverfast software the application hangs. Ironically, Vuescan operates both scanners just fine so I know they work. Any help would be appreciated. I tried everything under windows 7 bit and its still not working for me.
The ASPI driver is installed at least the aspichk says it Both the scsi card and the scanner are recognized by the windows 7 and installed well. The scanner is working great with vuescan. And what does this exactly mean: -Give "Everyone" "Full Control" permissions. Where can I set it in the windows? I'm using Hungarian Windows 7 Ultimate. Is it possible that its not working the same as english one? If it was installed before, perhaps uninstalling it the Nikon software , and then re-installing it will help.
Just guessing, but it probably wouldn't hurt anything, except your available free time. I'm no expert, so paying me to shut up is probably wiser than letting me keep talking for free. When you boot up the computer is the scanner switched on? The scsi device scanner must be found you can't just switch the scanner on and start scanning.
The trick is to go to the device manager and see if the scanner is listed, if not then use the Device manager and scan for new devices and see if it shows up, should work then. And I find out some interesting thing.
I also wanted to ask that its impossible to make it work under windows 7 64 bit because there is no driver for the adaptec card or other reasons? Because I found a working windows 7 64bit driver for the adaptec ahau card. I uploaded it here: www. Barry Watzman. Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message.
Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. Nigel Feltham. Barry Watzman wrote:. Re: "There is another possible option for Win7 users - it's possible that some of the more advanced Linux based Live CD's may be able to run these scanners. Barry, first at all thanks for sharing your knowledge. I want to know wich driver are you using for the coolscan III scanner. Thanks in advance for your reply.
Andrew Toms. Thanks to all of you for sharing your knowledge. I am so close I can taste it, but not there yet. This is not the preferred card for a Nikon scanner, although it can be made to work with the right cable, termination and configuration.
UPDATE Things got much more interesting once I found and removed the transit lock screw on the underside of the unit there is another one in the back panel. There are two transit screws. For transit, one goes in the hole on the bottom, the other goes into a hole just inside the front edge of the film adapter compartment, on the left side. You can't just stick these in any old way or time; before they can be inserted, the mechanism has to be put into the "transit park" mode.
Wolfgang Exler. It is highly appreciated. To the best of my knowledge, Nikon doesn't have any film scanner drivers for Vista. I know there is no driver listed in the Nikon site for my Coolscan V. If the scanner is recognized by Vista as imaging device you could give "vuescan" a try.
There is a free demo. Worth a try with a Nikon scanner anyway. It works for me. There are drivers for the LS and LS; same drivers. Now as to whether or not they work under XP, I don't know, but they do exist. Open this file double-click a.
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