Use XP driver in Vista? 32bit vs 64bit?

[Noozer]

I'm pretty sure that I know the answer, but I'm hoping to hear otherwise...

If you have a piece of hardware that does not have a Vista driver available,
is there any method to make use of a Windows XP driver?

Also, I assume that drivers for Vista are different between 32bit and 64bit?
You can't use a 32bit driver on the 64bit OS?

I'm considering moving to Vista Business edition, but I've got a Mustek
Bearpaw 1200CU scanner that I *need* to operate on my PC. I also have an MSI
TV@nywhere Master TV tuner card that would be nice to make use of.

I also assume that since my Epson Stylus Photo R200 printer has no Vista
drivers available, that they are included in Vista?

 

[HDFatBoy2003]

It depends, I've been able to use a couple of XP x64 drivers in Vista x64.
My SCSI Controller and my Epson R800 both are running fine using the XP x64
drivers. My Epson 3170 scanner not so lucky.

Epson as been working on Vista drivers so keep checking their website.

 

[Malke]

I'm pretty sure that I know the answer, but I'm hoping to hear otherwise...

If you have a piece of hardware that does not have a Vista driver available,
is there any method to make use of a Windows XP driver?

Also, I assume that drivers for Vista are different between 32bit and 64bit?
You can't use a 32bit driver on the 64bit OS?

I'm considering moving to Vista Business edition, but I've got a Mustek
Bearpaw 1200CU scanner that I *need* to operate on my PC. I also have an MSI
TV@nywhere Master TV tuner card that would be nice to make use of.

I also assume that since my Epson Stylus Photo R200 printer has no Vista
drivers available, that they are included in Vista?

I'm sorry, but you did know the answer - no. And no, you can't use a
drivers for a 32-bit OS in a 64-bit OS. If you must use the Mustek and
Mustek will write no drivers for Vista (did you ask them?), then you
need to stay with XP on that machine. I wouldn't assume that the Epson
drivers are available - I would check on Epson's website where there is
a list of printers that work with Vista here:

http://tinyurl.com/3xbtch


Malke

 

[Noozer]

If you have a piece of hardware that does not have a Vista driver

I'm sorry, but you did know the answer - no. And no, you can't use a
drivers for a 32-bit OS in a 64-bit OS. If you must use the Mustek and
Mustek will write no drivers for Vista (did you ask them?), then you need
to stay with XP on that machine. I wouldn't assume that the Epson drivers
are available - I would check on Epson's website where there is a list of
printers that work with Vista here:

http://tinyurl.com/3xbtch

Thanks folks...

Looks like I'll need a new scanner... but not today. I'm in no hurry to
switch to Vista.

BTW, the printer is supported natively.

 

[JW]

My old scanner runs fine on Vista. I just had to run the old XP instal CD in
XP compatibility mode.

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

You didn't say why you had to move to the 64bit version of VISTA <s>

I'm running a very old HP SJ5P scanner on 32 bit vista by using TWAIN
to communicate. So are others with other makes of scanner.

Does anyone know if there is TWAIN on a 64 bit system?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

There is no TWAIN in Vista.... it's all WIA (Windows Image Acquisition).

I've been told Vuescan will work in Vista with over 700 different scanner
models.

http://www.hamrick.com/

 

[EJ]

I'm pretty sure that I know the answer, but I'm hoping to hear
otherwise...

If you have a piece of hardware that does not have a Vista driver
available, is there any method to make use of a Windows XP driver?

Also, I assume that drivers for Vista are different between 32bit and
64bit? You can't use a 32bit driver on the 64bit OS?

I'm considering moving to Vista Business edition, but I've got a Mustek
Bearpaw 1200CU scanner that I *need* to operate on my PC. I also have an
MSI TV@nywhere Master TV tuner card that would be nice to make use of.

I also assume that since my Epson Stylus Photo R200 printer has no Vista
drivers available, that they are included in Vista?

I'm quite sure you will have trouble trying to install 32bit drivers under a
32bit OS, but as regards to XP drivers on Vista, I found I could instal XP
nVidia nForce audio drivers under Vista with no major problems.

 

[koze]

Yes there is depending on which is used twain 32 too.
Ko.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

The R200 has Vista drivers available at the Epson website, both 64 bit and
32bit.

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

There is no TWAIN in Vista.... it's all WIA (Windows Image Acquisition).

I believe you may be wrong at least on VISTA 32 bit:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

twain_32 0 1/5/2007 10:22 PM C:\Windows

x86_microsoft-windows-w..tion-
wiatwaincompat_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_none_58ae2ae1f305cda6
0 11/2/2006 7:35 AM C:\Windows\winsxs

x86_microsoft-windows-w..ion-
twaincomponents_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_none_86fb724c5f4594fa
0 11/2/2006 7:35 AM C:\Windows\winsxs

$$_twain_32_209f76caa35c9a77.cdf-ms 760 11/2/2006 7:37 AM
C:\Windows\winsxs\FileMaps

twain.dll 94,784 11/2/2006 7:35 AM C:\Windows

twain.dll 94,784 11/2/2006 7:35 AM C:\...\x86_microsoft-
windows-w..ion-
twaincomponents_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_none_86fb724c5f4594fa

twain_32.dll 50,688 11/2/2006 7:35 AM C:\Windows

twain_32.dll 50,688 11/2/2006 7:35 AM C:\...\x86_microsoft-
windows-w..ion-
twaincomponents_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_none_86fb724c5f4594fa

wiatwain.ds 6,144 11/2/2006 7:35 AM C:\Windows\twain_32

wiatwain.ds 6,144 11/2/2006 7:35 AM C:\...\x86_microsoft-
windows-w..tion-
wiatwaincompat_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_none_58ae2ae1f305cda6

x86_microsoft-windows-w..ion-
twaincomponents_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_none_86fb724c5f4594fa.mani
fest 7,398 11/2/2006 7:34 AM C:\Windows\winsxs\Manifests

x86_microsoft-windows-w..tion-
wiatwaincompat_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_none_58ae2ae1f305cda6.manif
est 7,739 11/2/2006 7:34 AM C:\Windows\winsxs\Manifests

twain_32.dll.mui 6,656 11/2/2006 7:41 AM C:\Windows\en-US

twain_32.dll.mui 6,656 11/2/2006 7:41 AM C:\...\x86_microsoft-
windows-w..omponents.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-
us_52cdcaef4d50f3e9

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Sorry that the listing is not very pretty. The first twain file dated in
January probably comes from my HP software but not the rest.

However my questions was whether there was TWAIN in VISTA 64-bit.

Note in particular that there is even a wiatwain.ds

I've read about vuescan here but most of us only have one scanner so if we
can use the software that comes with the scanner that is more convenient
and cheaper -- I also suspect that vuescan uses TWAIN .......

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Thanks for the information -- however the screen shot has a heading:

Windows/twain_32

so are you sure it runs under VISTA 64-bit?

I don't know enough about them myself.

See also my reply to Cari with the listing of what's on my VISTA-32

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

I'm quite sure you will have trouble trying to install 32bit drivers under a 
32bit OS,

PMJI but did you mean to say that or did you mean to say:

I'm quite sure you will have trouble trying to install 32bit drivers under a 
64-bit OS,

since you go on to say that you have installed XP drivers under VISTA but don't
say whether this was VISTA 32 or VISTA 64?

TIA