So I put in this wireless keyboard and mouse via USB, because one of the PS/2 ports on my machine is broken.
They work fine, in windows, in linux, in anything.
Reboot again in windows, and windows 'helpfully' finds the drivers for it (although it already works) - but it must have found the wrong ones, because my keyboard and mouse no longer work. They work in the bios and what have you, and in linux, but not in windows. I'd just installed windows (Windows 7) and so don't have any system restore points - I tried booting into recovery mode with a cd, and it didn't work, I tried booting into safe mode, but it must have used the same drivers because that doesn't work.
So here's what I have:
A 1GB USB stick, I've put a live version of Ubuntu on it so I can move windows files around.
The Windows 7 installation files on a removable HDD, not on DVD because I installed some ridiculous way* because I had no blank DVD's.
*I got the Windows XP install CD to boot from the aforementioned 1GB USB stick, installed it on one drive, stuck in the removable HDD with Windows 7 setup, ran it, installed it on a different HDD, once installed, edited the boot loader to remove the 'Previous Version of Windows' entry and formatted the other hard drive.
So anyway, ideally I'd like to go into Device Manager and uninstall some drivers, but I can't. I can't log into my computer or anything with no mouse and keyboard. The best I can do is boot into Ubuntu.
So what do I do? Is there anyway to revert windows 7 back to how it was without the DVD, or is there anyway to mess with drivers while out of windows?
[QUOTE=JenkinsJ;16127577]So I put in this wireless keyboard and mouse via USB, because on PS/2 ports on my machine is broken.
They work fine, in windows, in linux, in anything.
Reboot again in windows, windows 'helpfully' finds the drivers for it (although it works), but it must have found the wrong ones, because my keyboard and mouse no longer work. They work in the bios and what have you, and in linux, but not in windows. I'd just installed windows (Windows 7) and so don't have any system restore points - I tried booting into recovery mode with a cd, and it didn't work, I tried booting into safe mode, but it must have used the same drivers because that doesn't work.
So here's what I have:
A 1GB USB stick, I've put a live version of Ubuntu on it so I can move windows files around.
The Windows 7 installation files on a removable HDD, but on DVD because I installed some ridiculous way* because I had no blank DVD's.
*I got the Windows XP install CD to boot from the aforementioned 1GB USB stick, installed it on one drive, stuck in the removable HDD with Windows 7 setup, ran it, installed it on a different HDD, once installed, edited the boot loader to remove the 'Previous Version of Windows' entry and formatted the other hard drive.
So anyway, ideally I'd like to go into Device Manager and uninstall some drivers, but I can't. I can't log into my computer or anything with no mouse and keyboard. The best I can do is boot into Ubuntu.
So what do I do? Is there anyway to revert windows 7 back to how it was without the DVD, or is there anyway to mess with drivers while out of windows?[/QUOTE]
plug mouse & KB into different usb.
uninstall drivers
reboot
That doesn't work, I tried that but I couldn't uninstall the drivers before it decided to install them again.
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