HP Digital Camera won't support Win98

[george-thurmann@no_email.com]

I just bought an HP Digital Camera model M547. This 6.2 MP model was
just replaced with an 8 MP model so it was on sale. My old camera was
a 3mp and took excellent pictures (till it died), so I dont need 8mp.

However, the camera came with an install CD which has all the
photo-editing software (which I dont need), and the USB drivers.
I tried to install the drivers for Win98se and found the CD only has
software for XP and above. I went to the HP website to download the
Win98 drivers and got a message saying they no longer support Win98,
WinME, or Win2K.

The camera itself seems to work fine, and easily. However, if I can
not download the pictures to my computer, they can keep the damn
thing. Tomorrow I am returning it.

Does anyone know which digital camera brands still support Win98? It
does little good to have a camera that cant transfer the files to a
computer, and I am not going to upgrade to XP just because HP will no
longer support Win98, particularly when I despise and hate XP.

If these companies refuse to help ALL their customers, then I refuse
to do business with them. After all, how difficult is it to make a
few drivers available on their website...... I dont care if their
photo editing software dont work. There is always Photoshop and
others, but if they cant at least offer a driver, screw em'.

I just hope the photos I put on my SD card will work when I buy
another brand of camera so I do not lose all of them. They were taken
of our newborn baby. Does anyone know if they will work and remain on
the card when I do find a camera that accepts Win98?

Thanks

George

 

[dadiOH]

george-thurmann@no_email.com wrote:
> I just bought an HP Digital Camera model M547. This 6.2 MP model
> was just replaced with an 8 MP model so it was on sale. My old
> camera was a 3mp and took excellent pictures (till it died), so I
> dont need 8mp.
>
> However, the camera came with an install CD which has all the
> photo-editing software (which I dont need), and the USB drivers.
> I tried to install the drivers for Win98se and found the CD only has
> software for XP and above. I went to the HP website to download the
> Win98 drivers and got a message saying they no longer support Win98,
> WinME, or Win2K.
>
> The camera itself seems to work fine, and easily. However, if I can
> not download the pictures to my computer, they can keep the damn
> thing. Tomorrow I am returning it.
>
> Does anyone know which digital camera brands still support Win98?
> It does little good to have a camera that cant transfer the files
> to a computer, and I am not going to upgrade to XP just because HP
> will no longer support Win98, particularly when I despise and hate
> XP.
>
> If these companies refuse to help ALL their customers, then I refuse
> to do business with them. After all, how difficult is it to make a
> few drivers available on their website...... I dont care if their
> photo editing software dont work. There is always Photoshop and
> others, but if they cant at least offer a driver, screw em'.
>
> I just hope the photos I put on my SD card will work when I buy
> another brand of camera so I do not lose all of them. They were
> taken of our newborn baby. Does anyone know if they will work and
> remain on the card when I do find a camera that accepts Win98?
>
> Thanks
>
> George

George, go spend $10 and buy a card reader for your computer (it plugs
into USB) then take the card out of the camera and put it in the
reader.

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[Don Phillipson]

> george-thurmann@no_email.com wrote:

> > I just bought an HP Digital Camera model M547
> > . . . the HP website to download the
> > Win98 drivers and got a message saying they no longer support Win98,
> > WinME, or Win2K.

This is now normal.

> > The camera itself seems to work fine, and easily. However, if I can
> > not download the pictures to my computer, they can keep the damn
> > thing. Tomorrow I am returning it.

"dadiOH" <dadiOH@guesswhere.com> wrote in message
news:OUmq4NgHIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

> George, go spend $10 and buy a card reader for your computer (it plugs
> into USB) then take the card out of the camera and put it in the
> reader.

Since the introduction of USB this has been the simplest
way to copy from camera image cards. They appear as
a "pseudodrive" that Windows manipulates like any other
(needing no software beyond USB activation.) The same
works for most MP3 music players.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
This has

 

[foo]

george-thurmann@no_email.com wrote in
news:l6foi3t4818qvmlrchdi9evg8edd3tm60f@4ax.com:

> I just bought an HP Digital Camera model M547. This 6.2 MP
> model was just replaced with an 8 MP model so it was on
> sale. My old camera was a 3mp and took excellent pictures
> (till it died), so I dont need 8mp.
>
> However, the camera came with an install CD which has all
> the photo-editing software (which I dont need), and the USB
> drivers. I tried to install the drivers for Win98se and
> found the CD only has software for XP and above. I went to
> the HP website to download the Win98 drivers and got a
> message saying they no longer support Win98, WinME, or
> Win2K.
>

I have noticed that HP has even removed from its web site Win 98
drivers that it has had there for years.

HP has turned into what must be worst major brand in computers
for customer service.

Personally, I will never buy another product from HP.

Just recently, I paid them $49 for support on an out of warranty
machine. Their tech in India told me I had hardware problem and
should buy another computer from him for $300. He told me HP no
longer had recovery CDs for the machine, even though their web
site listed them. He told me my machine was obsolete and I
should buy another one from him.

I ordered the CDs from the web site, restored the system, and it
works fine.

HP charged me $49 for false information about the CDs and sales
pitch.

They will never get another ten cents from me.

 

[Dan]

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Since you do not suggest using HP then I am curious, foo who do you and
others suggest for digital cameras and other equipment and why?