HP 5100c and XP help

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Fred Pollard

I have a HP 5100c scanner and want to use it on my XP system. Although XP
finds it and it works to copy pics, it only copies at jpg and bmp, etc
formats. I want to copy to printer and copy to Word like I use to when using
the W98 HP software. I went to the HP D/L site and the software is there
but the full version is W98 and there is an update only for XP. Which means
if you read the install directions that you have to have the W98 version
installed on a W98 system and then update the system to XP and then apply
the XP update patch.Is there any way to get this software for just XP? Will
XP let me do what I want but I just haven't figured it out yet?
 
Hey Gerald,

Thanks for the idea. I am not clear on when you installed the Precision
Scan software.
Here is what happened to me. I have a Dell optiplex. The harddrive went bad.
Dell replaced it and got an upgrade from W2000 pro to XP Pro. All the stuff
at HP D/L deals with having Precision scan running and then upgrading to
XP. Needless to say that was not my case. They talk about loading the W2000
Precision scan software and then running the update, however they don't
provide any links to a W2000 version only updates. The XP generic scan
program works with the scanner but does a pretty poor job.

So when did you load Precision scan software and what version?

TIA

Ray
 
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