HP PhotoSmart C5101A - S20 vista driver

[Gaga Laguna]

HP PhotoSmart C5101A S20 is discontinued, but this is an excellent photo and film scanner with superb quality (much better quality then flatbed scanners).

This is the only element in my system that Vista upgrade advisor is not sure about, and this stops me from Vista upgrade.

As I remember, S20 was discontinued even before Windows XP came out and HP was very nice to provide Windows XP driver for this wonderful scanner.

Will there be a Vista driver for S20?

[Thomas McClow]

Did you ever get a response to this question? I have the same one.

[Walter Dardenne]

I also have a HP PhotoSmart S20 and would LOVE to have a Vista driver for it.

[tmess]

I just upgraded to Windows 7 and installed the HP Photosmart S20 with minimal difficulty. I downloaded the ps803mu.exe file (the one updated for USB). It did not recognize the driver. I did a manual search for the driver on my hard drive and selected the HP PhotoSmart 5200 driver (the 5100 driver did not work).

I'm pretty sure I did something similar with Vista to make it work as well.

Bottom line... it still works!

[Thomas McClow]

I just upgraded to Windows 7 and I will try the suggestion

[Bill DeVor]

I tried this.. I could not get it to work.

[KeithRodwell]

Just got my used S20 running nicely under Windows 7 using the Virtual XP mode. (This sadly does need Win7 professional, enterprise or ultimate.) I used the latest XP driver for the S20 from HP.

A few pointers

• if you've never used virtual pc, take a look in the win7 help - search for virtual xp mode
• windows virtual pc runs best with hardware assisted virtualisation - see http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=592
• virtual xp is available as free download from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/
• install the driver from virtual xp, not from win7
• once driver is installed, use the 'usb' tab in the xp window to 'attach' the S20
• you need to do that last step each time you start virtual xp mode