Getting your Nikon Coolscan to work on W7 x64  

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  1. Posts : 7,683
    Windows 10 Pro
    Thread Starter
       #411

    dcx said:
    Perhaps we should have some more ideas to ask to Steel Chn? He indicates recently on his thread (nov 12) that he has made successfull tests on W 8 (but I dont know the model of scanner; and he had necessarly to modify its .inf file).
    Please provide the link to the page or area you're talking about?
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  2. dcx
    Posts : 7
    Windows 8 x64
       #412

    Excuse me. I supposed this thread was well-known.

    It is :
    Unoffical Vista X64 driver of LS-8000ED/9000ED for Nikon Scan 4.03 - Photo.net Digital Darkroom Forum
    http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-fo...Ryck?start=120
    but you have to go to the last page (ie 13), the last messages. There's also interesting informations in previous pages.

    Some say it works (Dylan Lysoway, Steel Chn before the nov,14) on W8, and others says not (among them Steel Chn, the nov,15, but il let hear us that it is in a first step).
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  3. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
       #413

    I haven't gone through all the pages, but has anyone tried Vuescan by Hamrick. Lists the CoolScan as supported. Works with many other older, and newer, scanners.
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  4. Posts : 7,683
    Windows 10 Pro
    Thread Starter
       #414

    The Purpose


    If you at least read the first page you'd see that this thread is solely about getting the Nikon Software to work under Windows 7 without the use of Vuescan

    That said, I've already advised those running Windows 8 to try the latest trial version of Vuescan to see if it works under Windows 8. At least until I can definitively determine if the Nikon Software will, or will not work under Windows 8.

    Thanks
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  5. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #415

    I can't add any more at this stage dcx but will attempt to interface my 5000 ED next week or when I get the time. The "Advanced Startup / Restart Now" process is as stated in that link in my first post, at least for the En version of Win 8.
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  6. Posts : 10
    Windows 8 64bit
       #416

    JustLucky said:
    Came across the same issue with drivers in Win8 as dcx but there is an easy solution.

    1. Mouse over the lower-left (edit:I think that should be the lower-right) corner, then select Settings.

    2. Select Change PC Settings.

    3. Choose General.

    4. Scroll to the bottom and select Restart now under the Advanced startup area.

    5. Select Troubleshoot.

    6. Select Advanced Options.

    7. Select Startup Options.

    8. Select Restart.

    Now Device Driver Signing should be disabled, allowing you to install any driver you like in Windows 8 until you reboot.

    Solution is from:Windows 8: Disable Device Driver Signing

    I also want to get my Coolscan scanner working with Windows 8 and have yet to attempt it. However, getting my wife's computer upgraded from Win7 to Win 8 is just about finished and it has been pretty easy. I like Win8!
    Thank you for this info! I had run into the device driver signing issue and thought I was hosed. I followed your (very clear) instructions about how to disable the device driver signing and now my Nikon scanner is working great in Windows 8 64-bit. You made my day!
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  7. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #417

    jvahsholtz said:
    Thank you for this info! I had run into the device driver signing issue and thought I was hosed. I followed your (very clear) instructions about how to disable the device driver signing and now my Nikon scanner is working great in Windows 8 64-bit. You made my day!
    Glad to help.

    Did you get the Nikon scanner working with Nikon Scan under Windows 8 64 bit? It would be helpful to many others if you could detail your successful method and the driver you used.
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  8. Posts : 7,683
    Windows 10 Pro
    Thread Starter
       #418

    jvahsholtz said:
    JustLucky said:
    Came across the same issue with drivers in Win8 as dcx but there is an easy solution.

    1. Mouse over the lower-left (edit:I think that should be the lower-right) corner, then select Settings.

    2. Select Change PC Settings.

    3. Choose General.

    4. Scroll to the bottom and select Restart now under the Advanced startup area.

    5. Select Troubleshoot.

    6. Select Advanced Options.

    7. Select Startup Options.

    8. Select Restart.

    Now Device Driver Signing should be disabled, allowing you to install any driver you like in Windows 8 until you reboot.

    Solution is from:Windows 8: Disable Device Driver Signing

    I also want to get my Coolscan scanner working with Windows 8 and have yet to attempt it. However, getting my wife's computer upgraded from Win7 to Win 8 is just about finished and it has been pretty easy. I like Win8!
    Thank you for this info! I had run into the device driver signing issue and thought I was hosed. I followed your (very clear) instructions about how to disable the device driver signing and now my Nikon scanner is working great in Windows 8 64-bit. You made my day!
    1- Is it working with Vuescan, or....
    2- Is it working with my fix

    Also, you mind posting the specifics on how you got it working under Window 8?

    Thanks.
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  9. Posts : 10
    Windows 8 64bit
       #419

    JustLucky said:
    jvahsholtz said:
    Thank you for this info! I had run into the device driver signing issue and thought I was hosed. I followed your (very clear) instructions about how to disable the device driver signing and now my Nikon scanner is working great in Windows 8 64-bit. You made my day!
    Glad to help.

    Did you get the Nikon scanner working with Nikon Scan under Windows 8 64 bit? It would be helpful to many others if you could detail your successful method and the driver you used.
    Yes, I'm using the 32-bit Vista Nikon Scan v4.0.3 software with 64-bit Windows 8. I just followed the steps from message #1 in this thread, posted by sygnus21. When I got to the last step in his instructions (step #9), where the driver is actually installed, I got the error telling me the driver wasn't signed. At that point, I followed your instructions on how to temporarily disable the requirement that drivers be signed. Then I tried sygnus21's step #9 again, and was able to install the driver successfully.

    I haven't tried using Vuescan although I may, just to see how it compares.
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  10. dcx
    Posts : 7
    Windows 8 x64
       #420

    My Nikon LS-5000 with Slide Feeder works also properly on W8 64 in applying justlucky and jvahsholtz procedure to start without signature checks. ! I used the driver, as modified according to sygnus 21 indications (modified scanners.inf from Viescan modified by Steel Chn and others and original Nikon NKScnUSD.dll from version 4.0.3 of Nikon scan).
    And furthermore, when you reboot, even without this desactivation, it still works (it seems that, once installed, the driver needs no more signature checks to be runned; in fact, you can find permanent modifications in the registry).

    Great thanks to all the contributors. My previous unsuccesfull try was probably due to a wrong choice in the restart option (I have no other explaination).

    In my package of NikonSan (and an other Nikon package with a coolpix camera) I had "NikonView" which 'almost' works on W8 : in this Nikon browser, the thumbnails of your pictures no longer appears ... (?); you have to perform a manual search every time you change the directory. It is not very convenient !
    You can dowload from the Nikon site NikonViewNx which is free and offers the same functions (and more) and works properly. From NikonViewNx, you even are able to make a call to an external program such 'PanoramaMaker', a very usefull tool offered in previous Nikon packages (as the name shows it, it allows to make all kinds of panoramas with several pictures).

    As far as the driver signature solution (no longer usefull) is concerned, I found in the Microsoft documentation that, in W8, you probably have to use some more options in building your test certificate (at least, two). Some of the necessary informations in the Microsoft documentation is spread in numerous pages of instructions; you have never a precise, clear and full view of what you need ... Error messages never explicit ...

    What a lost of time due to both Microsoft and Nikon, united 'against' their customers!
    Last edited by dcx; 20 Dec 2012 at 07:57.
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