Does Widows 8 support scanners, and what drivers will work?ĭo I have to wait for support to catch up to get plug and play back? Are drivers for scanners compatible with other scanners? I have to do more research, if someone can point the direction of research that would be helpful.
I do not plan on throwing out the scanner, I do have an Xp machine that just has a fix using restore console that needs to be done to it, it would be nice to get Windows 8 to use the scanner too. I do not know how to set up a Xp sp3 environment that will accept the install of that driver as if it were running the thing as 32bit. Window 8 will not recognize that driver because it is a 32bit driver. Will run (I think I set it to run as Xp sp3), but needs to find a driver which for a 32bit system is packaged as lide20lide30n670un676un1240uvst7031a_xpen.exe and was found at Canon. I tried to use 'Windows driver update/find driver' tools, none found.
I have a CanoScan LiDE 30/N1240U scanner, that worked fine under Windows Xp sp3 (32bit), Canon has drivers for that OS, but not for Windows 8 RT (64bit).
