[Lowell Goudge]

Just curious here, but I cleaned house over the last few months and also upgraded my old PC which was running XP to a new one. I expected some issues with the Minolta scanner, only because it is really old, has anyone managed to get a an old scanner from the XP days to work in a 64 bit environment?


Note I know that Minolta stopped supporting scanners when they sold the imaging business to Sony, back a dozen years ago. Just wondering?

I suppose I should have kept one old PC just to run it, but it is only really in case I ever do mor film or not, as it already scanned my 20,000 film images

[Giklab]

There are some programs that claim to have drivers for all sorts of scanners (Vuescan comes to mind). Alternatively, you could run Windows 2000 or XP in a virtual machine on your current PC. Dual boot Linux may be an option as well, but I don't know how well that would work.

[stevebrot]

There used to be a custom (user-written) driver available for Windows 7 (64-bit) floating around the Web that should work for Win 10. I did a quick search search today, but was unable to find a current source. That is a shame since I have been using a similar solution with good success for my Nikon 5000 ED.

Vuescan?

VueScan Scanner Software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux


Steve

[thazooo]

This got the Dual Scan 4 running on vista, Might cross over or you might rewrite

Minolta DiMage Scan Dual IV [Solved] - Fixya

Good Luck

[cpk]

Vuescan will do the trick. I used that scanner with VueScan years ago. Never used the Minolta software. VueScan uses its own drivers. I am currently using VueScan with a Nikon CoolScan 4000, an Epson V700, and an Epson 2450 on a Windows 10 system.

[Lowell Goudge]

Vuescan will do the trick. I used that scanner with VueScan years ago. Never used the Minolta software. VueScan uses its own drivers. I am currently using VueScan with a Nikon CoolScan 4000, an Epson V700, and an Epson 2450 on a Windows 10 system.

seems to work just fine for the minolta thanks

[p38arover]

As I posted in another thread a couple of days ago, I'm using my old SCSI Nikon LS1000 with VueScan Pro and WIN 10 Pro 64-bit.

[Bengan]

There used to be a custom (user-written) driver available for Windows 7 (64-bit) floating around the Web that should work for Win 10. I did a quick search search today, but was unable to find a current source. That is a shame since I have been using a similar solution with good success for my Nikon 5000 ED. Vuescan?

I have a Dimage IV scanner that I had working under Windows 7 64bit. After upgrading to Windows 10 the scanner and scan utility stopped working. Yesterday I installed VueScan and, as others have reported, that worked nicely. The thing is that now I can start the Dimage Scan utility and it everything workes like before the upgrade.