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Legacy Scanner under Windows 7

Anonymous
2014-01-08T02:55:04+00:00

I have a CanoScan D2400u, legacy scanner which has worked well, and I am now trying to use under Windows 7 (Professional and x64).

Canon doesn't support this device under Windows 7.  However, it does provide a driver for XP and Vista (x32)

I am finding it really hard to determine if this can be made to work.  There is limited material I have found which suggests that Vista drivers work under Windows 7 and that x32 drivers work under an X64 version of Windows 7.

Can anyone confirm this is true?  What are the "rules" here?

If it is true, how can I configure Windows?  The scanner shows up as a no-name scanner in Device Manager.  Selecting it and then going to Action, Add Legacy Hardware gets me a wizard, with two options: "Search for and install the hardware automatically", which find nothing, and "Install the hardware that I manually select from a list" which provides a list which appears to be mainly printers with no scanners.

If I choose "Update Driver Software" and browse to the Canon provided driver download, then the message is "windows was unable to install your scanner".

Any thoughts would be appreciated.  (Except "buy a new scanner"  :-)  )

Thanks in advance

Peter

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-09T13:49:36+00:00

    Just an observation;

    Given the price of a win7 compatible scanner, or all in one, is it worth the hassle of having to use virtualxp? After all it was never a top end scanner

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-01-09T14:55:30+00:00

    You are not wrong!  To simplify my question, I omitted to say that I have two good scanners from that era, including a dedicated slide scanner.  So I will persist for a bit, and perhaps write up the complete solution when I get it.  Thanks for the thought.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-01-09T11:29:59+00:00

    TBH, I haven't got XPMode to actually try it out any longer, but does this assist re sharing - https://blogs.technet.com/b/windows_vpc/archive/2009/12/22/folder-sharing-between-windows-7-and-vm.aspx?Redirected=true ( It is a little old and was just found via a google ).

    Hope it helps and do let us know if you get it working or need more help. I'm sure someone will assist. More here - https://blogs.technet.com/b/windows_vpc/

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-01-09T01:13:08+00:00

    That's a very useful thought.  Fascinating.  Yes, it does appear that the XP mode installs the device driver: the scanner test runs.

    Now, whether I can turn this into a usable method for scanning my slides and photos or not might take a while.  I have to install a TWAIN scanning application under XP mode, and then figure out how to map the different file systems so that I get my scans into the same place as all my other images!!!!

    It's probably going to cost as much time-wise to make it all work, as it does to buy Windows 7 supported scanner!  But your assistance much appreciated.  I will report whether persistence pays off!

    Thanks again

    Peter

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-01-08T10:12:59+00:00

    Possibly - http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/canon-scanner/cb412760-b1fd-448a-9ffe-25d2fc8c49af

    As you have W7 Pro, it seems to say the USB scanner works in XPMode. ( which is free as long as your OS qualifies, and Pro does ).

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