cadtek Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 I'm new here and have an interesting problem I had my windows side working fine until I screwed with the registry ... I had to reinstall winxpsp2 and did not get my apple drivers in until after it did the final boot. It was finding the hardware but not installing the drivers. I went to the control panel and tried to update, then remove and reboot. I was able to get the keyboard to work with the remap tool posted in this forum...thank you beliyaal(sp?) I have searched this forum and foundthat you all are great and very knowledgeable. Will you please help this college girl out? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 If you just re-installed your WinXP on top of the "broken" one, then maybe windows kept the driver files and automatically installed them (it looks for driver files during the installation process). The safest thing to do when re-installing windows is to let the XP install manager format (not re-partition) the targeted partition to make sure you erase all the old files. hecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadtek Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 But what to do now? after the fact... Should I reinstall again and leave the driver cd alone? It never did ask for drivers.. I think you might be right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Well, if you're a lucky girl, then windows might have installed everything correctly. Take a look in your Device Manager under windows (you can access it by right clicking "My Computer"->Properties->Hardware) and look for any devices marked with a yellow question mark. If you find any then I would recommend you reinstall windows from scratch. Cheers, hecker PS: If you find any yellow question marks and you don't want to re-install Windows then try right-clicking the faulty device and selecting "update driver". Then, when it asks you for the driver files you'll need to point it to your mac drivers DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadtek Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 Thank you!! the device manager does show the yellow question marks. when i do an update driver the problem remains. If i do a win reinstall it will ask to repair what is already installed. Should i repair? If i need to do a complete reinstall of winxp how do I uninstall it to teinstall it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 If i do a win reinstall it will ask to repair what is already installed.Should i repair? If i need to do a complete reinstall of winxp how do I uninstall it to teinstall it? Do not use the repair option. Use the one to install from scratch (don't recall what the exact title is but I think it's the first topmost option) and remember to FORMAT the target drive when you are prompted to do so. If you do that then all the old files will be erased and your devices should work after installing the mac drivers from the CD. hecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadtek Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 Sounds like major surgery... Sure hate to lose the installs of hundred of programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Sorry to hear that. But hey, you can at least boot into windows and backup all your files, right? hecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadtek Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 yes i can boot into win Do you have a favorite backup tool? I tried using the win version and it was problematic... it goes 3 hours to an external drive and then reports a backup error message Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 You could read your windows files from your OSX environment and save them there. Other than that, you could simply copy the files onto your external drive from your windows explorer. No need to drag the applications in there since these have to be re-installed anyway. Another thing: Is there an executable file on your mac drivers CD? If so, you could try running that to see if it fixes the driver problem. hecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadtek Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 I tried the setup.exe and all the exe drivers with no luck before the first post. Really strange that win did not replace the drivers .. I wonder if a safe boot would take care of the driver replacement. I'll ty that first and report back. Thank you you have been most helpful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharp Shooter Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 This one just doesnt work for me too...lost lots of hair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorgar Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 cadtek, I have the same problem. I was wondering if you ever fixed this without a complete XP reinstall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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