twain on xp pro?

Hi

I am having problems trying to install my scanner since
upgrading from win 98se to xp pro

Its a claen install and i have all the patches, updates
and the service pack installed.

The problem is when i install my drivers for my scanner (
black widow 4800pp) which works through the parallel port.
Windows xp tells me "flat bed not ready -- install twain
drivers in windows folder"
My instalation disk is an exe file which installs the
drivers to window/systems folder. I have copied the twain
files to the wimdows folder but that doesn't help.

I have checked out black widow site (devcon)but i can't
find any help there

Thanks

Hello

Your going to have to go to hp.com and find the latest drivers
that support win Xp

Alvin


Pete wrote:

Hi

I am having problems trying to install my scanner since
upgrading from win 98se to xp pro

Its a claen install and i have all the patches, updates
and the service pack installed.

The problem is when i install my drivers for my scanner (
black widow 4800pp) which works through the parallel port.
Windows xp tells me "flat bed not ready -- install twain
drivers in windows folder"
My instalation disk is an exe file which installs the
drivers to window/systems folder. I have copied the twain
files to the wimdows folder but that doesn't help.

I have checked out black widow site (devcon)but i can't
find any help there

Thanks

Hi,
There doesn't seem to be any drivers for your Black Widow 4800 scanner, try
doing a google search for your scanner and windows xp drivers. There are
some users who have had success using another driver for the 6100 that
worked with the 4800.

If you're unable to find a driver that works, then you'll have to purchase a
new scanner that supports WindowsXP or use the scanner with an older
computer that still has Windows 98.

Good luck.

--
Gary Tsang


"Pete" wrote in message
...
Hi

I am having problems trying to install my scanner since
upgrading from win 98se to xp pro

Its a claen install and i have all the patches, updates
and the service pack installed.

The problem is when i install my drivers for my scanner (
black widow 4800pp) which works through the parallel port.
Windows xp tells me "flat bed not ready -- install twain
drivers in windows folder"
My instalation disk is an exe file which installs the
drivers to window/systems folder. I have copied the twain
files to the wimdows folder but that doesn't help.

I have checked out black widow site (devcon)but i can't
find any help there

Thanks

Pete wrote:
Hi

I am having problems trying to install my scanner since
upgrading from win 98se to xp pro

Its a claen install and i have all the patches, updates
and the service pack installed.

The problem is when i install my drivers for my scanner (
black widow 4800pp) which works through the parallel port.
Windows xp tells me "flat bed not ready -- install twain
drivers in windows folder"
My instalation disk is an exe file which installs the
drivers to window/systems folder. I have copied the twain
files to the wimdows folder but that doesn't help.

I have checked out black widow site (devcon)but i can't
find any help there

Thanks

Well of course it doesn't work - those files were designed to be used under
98 - of course they won't work on XP. Devcom have long since gone out of
business. It has nothing to do with the TWAIN (which actually stands for
nothing more than 'Technology Without An Interesting Name') and everything
to do with the scanner being unsupported and, therefore, completely useless
(OK, not completely useless, it would make a novel doorstop or bookend). I
reckon you have no choice but to purchase a new scanner; 'time, tide, and
technology wait for no man'.

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Pete wrote:


I am having problems trying to install my scanner since
upgrading from win 98se to xp pro

Its a claen install and i have all the patches, updates
and the service pack installed.

The problem is when i install my drivers for my scanner (
black widow 4800pp) which works through the parallel port.
Windows xp tells me "flat bed not ready -- install twain
drivers in windows folder"

Most such parallel port drivers were 16 bit affairs using techniques
that XP flatly does not permit. With the move to USB the makers of
scanners have no interest in writing new parallel port ones either. If
you go to the makers site you *might* find some for Win2000, which might
work, otherwise you are stuck (though there are now reasonable USB
scanners at very low prices)


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.

Other people had problems like this, with other scanners. They found that
by installing and using the scanner in Windows 98 compatibility mode, the
scanner worked for them.

Yves


"Pete" wrote in message
...
Hi

I am having problems trying to install my scanner since
upgrading from win 98se to xp pro

Its a claen install and i have all the patches, updates
and the service pack installed.

The problem is when i install my drivers for my scanner (
black widow 4800pp) which works through the parallel port.
Windows xp tells me "flat bed not ready -- install twain
drivers in windows folder"
My instalation disk is an exe file which installs the
drivers to window/systems folder. I have copied the twain
files to the wimdows folder but that doesn't help.

I have checked out black widow site (devcon)but i can't
find any help there

Thanks

Yves Leclerc wrote:
Other people had problems like this, with other scanners. They found that
by installing and using the scanner in Windows 98 compatibility mode, the
scanner worked for them.

Yves


"Pete" wrote in message
...
Hi

I am having problems trying to install my scanner since
upgrading from win 98se to xp pro

Its a claen install and i have all the patches, updates
and the service pack installed.

The problem is when i install my drivers for my scanner (
black widow 4800pp) which works through the parallel port.
Windows xp tells me "flat bed not ready -- install twain
drivers in windows folder"
My instalation disk is an exe file which installs the
drivers to window/systems folder. I have copied the twain
files to the wimdows folder but that doesn't help.

I have checked out black widow site (devcon)but i can't
find any help there

Thanks

Drivers should never be installed in compatibility mode.

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Like Alex said, replace with USB. Fry's Electronics is advertising HP
Scanjet 4200C USB 39.00. Ain't worth keeping or fixing when you can replace
for next to nothing.

GD


"Alex Nichol" wrote in message
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: Pete wrote:
:
:
: I am having problems trying to install my scanner since
: upgrading from win 98se to xp pro
:
: Its a claen install and i have all the patches, updates
: and the service pack installed.
:
: The problem is when i install my drivers for my scanner (
: black widow 4800pp) which works through the parallel port.
: Windows xp tells me "flat bed not ready -- install twain
: drivers in windows folder"
:
: Most such parallel port drivers were 16 bit affairs using techniques
: that XP flatly does not permit. With the move to USB the makers of
: scanners have no interest in writing new parallel port ones either. If
: you go to the makers site you *might* find some for Win2000, which might
: work, otherwise you are stuck (though there are now reasonable USB
: scanners at very low prices)
:
:
: --
: Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
: Bournemouth, U.K.