Running XP mode requires (first) downloading and installing Virtual PC
which I believe can be added to any version of Windows. However it also
requires downloading and installing XP mode which requires Win 7
Professional or higher. You can upgrade to Professional if desired.
(about $70 on Amazon)
<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/default.aspx>
Running SCSI on Win XP requires installing Adaptec SCSI drivers (still
avaiable last time I looked) since Microsoft stopped packaging Adaptec
SCSI drivers with the Windows distribution (IIRC) starting with Win
2000. Whether Virtual PC gives you true virtualization of device
drivers I don't know.
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/16/2011 2:09 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Moose wrote:
>> On 12/16/2011 9:18 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>> Hey Foxy,
>>> Finished my last rolls of KM about a year ago. I still have seven rolls
>>> to scan and need to do it soon as my one last XP computer that can run
>>> the scanner is on the verge of death.
>>
>> I'm running my FS4000 scanner under Vista using an Adaptec 2930 SCSI
>> controller and the generic driver that comes with
>> VueScan. It works just like it did on previous versions of Windoze.
>>
>> Vista Scanning Moose
>
> I shan't mess with Vista. I just got an ASUS laptop which came with one
> of the many flavors of Win 7, which flavor, however, is not one of those
> that can do XP-mode or, I gather, fathom what an ASPI driver is for.
> This is assuming I could even find some way to interface the SCSI of the
> scanner to it.
>
> My plan for now is to keep an image of my XP startup disk in safe
> keeping and just slap it into the PC when I want to do a session of
> scanning. Later I'll figure out how to partition the drive so that I
> can boot either XP or 7. This would be in some sort of desktop setup.
>
> I'd really like to get to the point where the ASUS pretty much takes
> care of all of my current needs for both a laptop and desktop,
> essentially eliminating the desktop. The ASUS monitor is just awesome
> -- except for the viewing angle thing, equal to or better than my 22"
> Samsung LCD.
>
> Joel W.
>
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