Device drivers for old camcorder?

[nick42]

I have an old Mini DV camers (VP-D362); when plugging it into my laptop (windows 7) some of the drivers have loaded (usb etc.) but the main camcorder driver won't load.  I know it's a very old machine, and probably drivers only go up to Vista, but are these drivers available anywhere else?  Looking online has led me to lots of places that just re-direct you to Driver Updater and then to a 3rd party pay request!

Basically IO'm trying to use the USB function to capture it onto digital - I have one very old laptop with an IEEE1394 port but this has just cr@pped out on me, so this is the only other option (I think), as my newer laptop doesn't have an expansion slot to put a new firewire port in and I don't think theres a way to do this through the multi av port?

So thanks for anything you can suggest

[Joeh51]

Hi Nick, I'm having the same problem with mine and have loads of old videos I want to save. Did you manage to find a Windows 7 driver or get an answer to this.