I need to stop a windows repair

[ccie2b2004]

Hello everyone,

Thank you for reading my post. I am working on a Dell PC with Windows XP2. It is connected to a network and it is using two printers. Every time I try to use the laserjet 1022n, the printer spool stops, so after researching I found out that repairing Windows should take care of the problem. Then as I am doing the repairing of it, as it is installing the devices, the installation stops as it is asking for the location of a network intel card driver. The problem is that neither the mouse or the keyboard works. Both of them are USB and there is no other way to connect a mouse or keyboard. So I figured the easy way to solve this problem was to go to safemode and stop the Intel driver, but safemode is locked in Installation mode. So right now I am totally lock out of the PC just going in a loop. I tried to use the console with bootcfg thinking I could remove the installation line from the boot.ini file but it is not an easy task (if possible) which I think it should be possible otherwise why having it available.

I have already spent so many hours in this I was hopping a kind soul could help me figure out this one!

Many thanks,

Steven

 

[linney]

Can you remove the Network Card concerned (or is it an On-board Network in the Motherboard?

If it is do you have the drivers for it on any supplied CD's from the manufacturer. If not can you locate the drivers and store them in a CD or Floppy.

Something like BartPE will give you access to whatever is on the Setup drive/partition. You can use that to play with Boot.ini, or load drivers to a temp folder for use when Setup restarts.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

How to add OEM Plug and Play drivers to Windows installations

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/254078/EN-US/

Limited OEM driver support is available with F6 during Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 setup

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314859#appliesto

Some commands are available from Recover Console, such as Disable or Enable, but it is hard to know whether Setup is advanced far enough to be able to use any of them. In any case you probably need to stop the found/discovered new hardware process rather than any driver disabling, as the driver has not been loaded.

[RESOLVED] Windows XP install and USB keyboard issue

http://discussions.virtualdr.com/showthread.php?t=225212

http://www.google.com/search?q=use+usb+mouse+and+keyboard+during+xp+setup&rls=com.microsoft:

 

[Lemon13]

enable usb legacy support in bios, that should make mouse/keyboard work