Win XP and Scanning

[BillBaldwin]

Recently Installed Win XP Pro after much but not enough reading -- just learned of WIA drivers for scanning instead of TWAIN -

I installed latest drivers for my scanner (Microtek V6-UPL) (Microtek says they are compliant with XP tho' an MSFT warning came up when installing them). Although scanner passes "test mode" (where one can see a thumbnail scan that shows the scanner works), none of the scanning software I use works any more when scanning (they all still manipulate photos fine, etc). And Omnipage Pro will not recognize the scanner. When I tell the imaging application to acquire the image -- no matter the application -- i get an mysterious error -- something like "mfsfile," then an apology and do i want to send the details to MSFT?

Any suggestions? Scanning is important to me and I would hate to have to go back to 98 -- or buy another copy of Win 2K -- just so my scanner will function.

And btw why WIA scanner drivers instead of gool ole twain? That worked fine!

Bill

(oh yeah -- my Athlon XP1800 machine has enough speed and ddram and hard disk memory to run most anything so doubt that is the problem)

[merkus]

try something i would try - reformat

[BipolarBill]

I use an ancient HP SCSI scanner on XP just fine. All imaging applications can use it. It uses TWAIN drivers too.

Reinstall.