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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).
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.
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
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.
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.
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.