Hello, I was just about to upgrade to Win XP (from Win 98) and discovered that the Minolta website indicates that the Scan Elite is NOT supported on XP. When I called their support, I was informed that in fact it would NEVER be supported on XP (because it is being discontinued soon). To say that I'm pissed at this lack of support for older products is an understatement (esp. when other companies seem to have provided SOMETHING). I doubt I'll ever by a Minolta product again with this kind of support, but that's another story...
My reason for writing is that I read somewhere that some Win 2K drivers work for peripherals in Win XP. I'm wondering if anyone has tried this for the Scan Elite? Or should I just forget the whole idea (until I have the necessary $$ to buy a newer scanner)? Unfortunately, I HAVE to do a clean install fairly soon because my Win 98 system is acting very flaky. So, I'm faced with re-installing Win 98 (ugh), upgrading to Win 2000 or upgrading to Win XP (and not being able to use my film scanner.) I did read the thread on "which wintel OS" and realize that Win 2000 would probably be a good option. But, I've also got a laptop with Win XP, so I'm already somewhat familiar with it. Win 2000 is a complete unknown to me. Thanks, Jeanie ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
