In the last post I spitted over HP for not supplying Vista drivers for one of their scanners I own. I won’t repeat my disappointment again, rather I’ll supply a solution. No, it is not buying a newer scanner from HP.
It is far easier – use [VMWare] Workstation 6.0 (currently in beta) that supports USB 2.0 devices. I tested and it works almost flawlessly. The only trick is that you have to attach USB device during Windows XP (yes, the guest is XP SP2) boot process – otherwise guest machine will freeze for some reason (it is in beta, so it is normal to have bugs). Also I am not sure whether USB 2.0 is supported in their free [VMWare] Player product.
It turns out that [VMWare] Workstation 6.0 is a very valuable solution for Vista upgrade situation, too (besides the obvious advantages) as you can use not supported USB 2.0 devices (and perhaps others) within a virtual machine hosted on Vista.
well, it is a solution, but it requires a install of another software on your pc…
Indeed. I am all ears for a better solution.
What happens when you try to install
XP driver ?
Maybe you can try to use VueScan …
http://www.hamrick.com/
Regards, Roman
I think I’ve tried that too, it didn’t want to install…
I’ll take a look at VueScan though.
Nope, VueScan won’t work either as it needs HP libraries.