Getting your Nikon Coolscan to work on W7 x64

[sygnus21]

Thank you glacort.

Enjoy

 

[mgriffith55]

Concerning the VM Method

Your method is GREAT for the Nikon scanner --not an issue but was just pointing out another alternative where apart from scanning the user might actually want to use the SCANNER SOFTWARE itself as well before starting their photo application such as Photoshop.

Some of the older scanner software also won't run on W7 either -- so I wasn't justt considering the driver.

Jimbo, while I understand where you’re coming from be aware that the procedures I posted are actually for the "Nikon Scan" software (ver 4.0.3). If you use Vuescan, the scanner will work as Vuescan has it's own driver for the scanner for all version of Win 7 & Vista.

The "Nikon" software won't work without its driver under Win 7 or Vista x64... that's the problem.

BTW have you seen any of the Nikon film scanners? They're strictly for scanning film/slides That's it. Here’s the Super Coolscan 5000ED. I have the older Super Coolscan 4000ED.

Anyways these scanners run/ran about $1000 dollars. And what’s effed up is that Nikon refuses to support Windows 7 or Vista x64!!! Thus the hacked driver.

Anyways this post was used to help write my procedures here.

I appreciate the input though.

Peace

New to this post (first post in fact) and admittedly only part way through it, but one of the things that led me here was the VM Method doesn't support Firewire only USB and of course the Coolscan 4000 is a Firewire device. There are also issues in the fact that the 3rd party software doesn't support the auto slide feeders, only the Nikon Coolscan software does, so really if you want all the old bells and whistles on the 4000 there is no other choice. Very interesting and informative stuff too sygnus21, can't wait to try the fix.

 

[glacort]

mgriffith,

eventually I bought Vuescan, years ago it was not on par with NikonScan, now it is much better, easier to use and gives better results.
Vuescan supports all scanners, including your Coolscan 4000, I just don't know if it works with firewire, strange though: my 5000ED is USB only ! There is a trial version so you can check ...

 

[sygnus21]

Vuescan supports all scanners, including your Coolscan 4000, I just don't know if it works with firewire, strange though: my 5000ED is USB only ! There is a trial version so you can check ...

Vuesan supports both the firewire and USB flavors of the Nikon Coolscans.

Anyway the sole purpose of this thread/tutorial is specifically dedicated getting the Nikon Software to work with the scanner under Windows 7 x64, not whether the program is better on not.

BTW I have, and used, Vuscan and have my opinions on it but won't discuss it here as, again, the purpose here is to get the Nikon Scan software working under Windows 7 x64.

Also the trial period is only 30 days, after that you can either pay 80 bucks for the Pro Edition which gives you more options (in addition to lifetime updates), or pay 40 bucks for the Standard edition and updates for a year.

VueScan Scanner Software for Windows 7, Mac OS X Lion, Linux, iPhone, iPad, iPod

Anyway I prefer to stick to the purpose of this tutorial here.

Thanks

 

[jomube]

Hi sygnus21, I try to go to your website to download the zip file for Nikon Coolscan, but website seem to not working.

This website is currently unavailable.

Regards.

 

[sygnus21]

Yeah the site is currenly down as I debate it's future, as well as my future here.

Anyway here's a copy of the file - View attachment scanners.zip

I'll also attach it to the first page.

Thanks.

 

[jomube]

Thank you

 

[rormeister]

I also recommend you try VueScan from VueScan Scanner Software for Windows 7, Mac OS X Lion, Linux, iPhone, iPad, iPod. This is a great app, with Photoshop import functionality. I'm pretty sure you don't need extra drivers to get it all working. VueScan has a x64 version so it's totally current.

 

[jomube]

Yeah the site is currenly down as I debate it's future, as well as my future here.

Anyway here's a copy of the file - View attachment 192014

I'll also attach it to the first page.

Thanks.

Great, I just install everything is it work fine with Nikon Scan. Thanks

 

[masplin]

Hi just got a Nikon V ED scanner and tried the above fix but doesn't work. Just says "windows cannot find any driver software for your device". I tried both dlls as wasn't sure if my scanner is USB as it has USB at one end and printer type socket on the other. Thanks for any advice

 

[masplin]

Found it on another site and works fine

http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00ZhGb

 

[mgriffith55]

syngus21, I wanted to give you some feedback on setting my Nikon Coolscan 4000 up, followed your procedure and it worked like a charm, even the slide loader works and I'm plenty stoked. Much thanks!!

 

[sygnus21]

Thank you mgriffith55, appreciate it.

Happy scanning

 

[Fernando1]

- EDIT: Since my site is currently down here's the file -.

Sygnus21, Thank you very much for having done this Edit. I have your original file copied everywhere I can, but wanted a fresh one since my 4000ED showed an odd error message. I was just about to uninstall the whole driver and revised your original (saved) post ...until I happened to read this twice, and felt a click inside:

7- Go to Device Manager – Control Panel, Device Manager and look for the "Unknown Device" (your scanner) with the yellow triangle.

8- Right click on it and choose "Update Driver Software" then choose "Browse my computer for driver software"

9- Click "Browse" and find the location or folder where you put the scanners.inf file. Example: C:\Program Files (x86)\Nikon\NkScan4\Nikon Files and click "Next" This will/should install the driver (scanners.inf) you extracted from the zip file for your scanner.

Simply, I Updated and Browsed again. Clicked Next, got an O.K. message. Turned On the Coolscan, and the error message had disappeared.
Still, I don't know why did it stop working, and what did the error message meant. Nor if this issue was previously treated in this Topic thread.

Now, ...now I will see if the Coolscan is in fact working as it did before ....

 

[Fernando1]

7- Go to Device Manager – Control Panel, Device Manager and look for the "Unknown Device" (your scanner) with the yellow triangle.

Think I missed one point: there was no yellow triangle at all, anywhere, everything seemed just right.

 

[sygnus21]

Sorry I just now seeing your post.

Anyway I'm not sure what your question or issue is but do you have it working now?

 

[Fernando1]

Sorry I just now seeing your post.

Anyway I'm not sure what your question or issue is but do you have it working now?

No problem, not in a hurry. Thanks for your prompt reply .

1- Yes, I have it working now and hope it will do for a very long time from now. Followed steps 7, 8, 9 and the error message didn't show up again.
The yellow triangle never appeared.
I had uninstalled VueScan last Wednesday, but this did not prevent the error message to show up any time I launched NikonScan. I have it working now, but didn't install VueScan again.

2- The question / issue is: what may have happened ? - it was working like a charm, I took my summer holidays and stopped scanning for four weeks, and all of a sudden I got an error message when launching NikonScan only (VueScan worked fine, but since I prefer NikonScan I uninstalled VueScan but, as said, this didn't heal the problem).

3- By chance, before reinstalling the whole Nikon driver, I experimented with steps 7, 8, 9 only, and this procedure proved enough to make the scanner to work as nice as before. But I still doubt about installing VueScan again, because I have not a clue on what was the cause that made Windows 7 to lose contact with some part of the Nikon driver.

Did I make myself clear enough? English is not my mother language, thus it's very probable that I posed my question / issue in a rather confusing way. Sorry about that, I always try to write the best I can.

Last, I want to thank you for having updated the link to download your file ..

 

[sygnus21]

2- The question / issue is: what may have happened ? - it was working like a charm, I took my summer holidays and stopped scanning for four weeks, and all of a sudden I got an error message when launching NikonScan only (VueScan worked fine, but since I prefer NikonScan I uninstalled VueScan but, as said, this didn't heal the problem).

I've no idea what happened. I have both Nikon and Vuscan installed and have never experienced that issue, nor seen it reported here. In fact I just now tried the scanner for the first time in about 8 months and the software and everything still works.

One thing to check is that you don't have a loose connection between the the scanner (USB/FireWire) and PC as that could cause a driver issue. Also check that the power cord isn't loose. Other than that I can't say.

Anyway you say it's working now so I'd go from there.

Peace

 

[Fernando1]

One thing to check is that you don't have a loose connection between the the scanner (USB/FireWire) and PC as that could cause a driver issue.

Mmmmm .... I missed to mention it, but I did so since it was part of your original post. I didn't notice it could be loose, but anyway I unplugged and made myself sure to plug it tight.
If a loose FW connection can cause odd driver issues (not a simple 'device not found'), you may have nailed on the answer, and at the same time, underlined an instruction line I had understated (it seemed such an obvious thing ... ). Thank you again. I will install VueScan with more confidence now.
Peace

 

[sygnus21]

One thing to check is that you don't have a loose connection between the the scanner (USB/FireWire) and PC as that could cause a driver issue.

If a loose FW connection can cause odd driver issues (not a simple 'device not found'),

A loose connection can very well cause a driver issue just a loose connection can cause a light to fail. In the case of the driver this can happen if it's rapidly being cycled off and on by a loose connection. This activity can cause the driver to corrupt itself and not function properly.

Sometimes you'll see this happen to the OS (Windows) and/or drivers when there is a rapid or sudden shutdown and startup of the system. It usually take more that one time for this to happen, though once is enough.

Anyway you have it fixed. Happy scanning.

Peace