Big B Three
01-25-2002, 11:58 AM
I upgraded a friends system a couple of months ago to a Pentium II 450 and Windows 98 SE doing a clean install on a formatted drive. (You should have seen how slow it was before ;) ) Anyhow it worked great for her until two nights ago when her hard drive crashed while using the Office suite. When she tried booting up after that, she would just get system disk not found errors.
Not wanting to drive all the way to her house, I had her put in the startup disk, run scandisk, find a bad cluster, reboot to the command prompt, and run windows setup to reinstall the operating system. All of her settings are still intact, and Microsoft Office still runs without having to reinstall the office suite. The only thing wrong now is the mouse no longer works.
I had her remove the mouse from the device manager and re-boot. Windows easily found the P/S2 mouseport and re-installed it, still didn't work. Booted up in safe mode, mouse still didn't work. Checked the mouse connection, still didn't work. Disconnected the mouse and attached a serial mouse. Windows detected it fine, but still doesn't work.
I'm assuming that the problem is coming from re-installing windows on top of a previous installation, but running out of ideas. She needs a new harddrive anyway, as she is still using a pretty small one from years ago, so I'll probably do that within a month or two, but any help to get that mouse going in the meantime?
Not wanting to drive all the way to her house, I had her put in the startup disk, run scandisk, find a bad cluster, reboot to the command prompt, and run windows setup to reinstall the operating system. All of her settings are still intact, and Microsoft Office still runs without having to reinstall the office suite. The only thing wrong now is the mouse no longer works.
I had her remove the mouse from the device manager and re-boot. Windows easily found the P/S2 mouseport and re-installed it, still didn't work. Booted up in safe mode, mouse still didn't work. Checked the mouse connection, still didn't work. Disconnected the mouse and attached a serial mouse. Windows detected it fine, but still doesn't work.
I'm assuming that the problem is coming from re-installing windows on top of a previous installation, but running out of ideas. She needs a new harddrive anyway, as she is still using a pretty small one from years ago, so I'll probably do that within a month or two, but any help to get that mouse going in the meantime?