Partition Magic/USB mouse Problem

[Jack Gillis]

I realize this is not necessarily a Windows XP problem but I have
Googled it to death and have not found an solution. My system is XP SP2
with all updates I know of. I hope someone can give me some help here
or point me to a group that would be more appropriate. I have tried
alt.comp.hardware with no success.

Here is the problem.

Partition Magic 8 offers to create recovery diskettes that work
wonderfully well except my Logitec USB mouse is not recognized and
doesn't work when I boot those disks. If I remember to disconnect
the mouse from the USB port and use the adapter that came with it to
connect to the PS2 port then it does work.

Ghost 2003 gives me the chance to use the UHCI driver on their recovery
diskettes (PC DOS) and the USB mouse does just fine. I tried UHCI on the
PM diskettes but it didn't work. I guess it has to do with the Caldera
DOS PM uses. Does anyone know of a way to create a PM bootable recovery
disk set that will enable the USB mouse on the PM disks? I've tried
various drivers such as USBASPI but it only seems to enable USB HD's,
CDROMS, etc.



Thank you very much.

 

[Malke]

I realize this is not necessarily a Windows XP problem but I have
Googled it to death and have not found an solution. My system is XP
SP2
with all updates I know of. I hope someone can give me some help here
or point me to a group that would be more appropriate. I have tried
alt.comp.hardware with no success.

Here is the problem.

Partition Magic 8 offers to create recovery diskettes that work
wonderfully well except my Logitec USB mouse is not recognized and
doesn't work when I boot those disks. If I remember to disconnect
the mouse from the USB port and use the adapter that came with it to
connect to the PS2 port then it does work.

Ghost 2003 gives me the chance to use the UHCI driver on their
recovery diskettes (PC DOS) and the USB mouse does just fine. I tried
UHCI on the
PM diskettes but it didn't work. I guess it has to do with the
Caldera
DOS PM uses. Does anyone know of a way to create a PM bootable
recovery
disk set that will enable the USB mouse on the PM disks? I've tried
various drivers such as USBASPI but it only seems to enable USB HD's,
CDROMS, etc.

Check in your BIOS and make sure that Legacy USB is enabled.

Malke

 

[Jack Gillis]

Check in your BIOS and make sure that Legacy USB is enabled.

Thank you, Malke.

Yes it is enabled. Further, the samed sort of bootable diskettes
prepared by Ghost 2003 work just fine with the same USB mouse so I guess
that sort of assures it can be done.

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

Why not?

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:55:40 -0500, "Jack Gillis"

|Partition Magic 8 offers to create recovery diskettes that work
|wonderfully well except my Logitec USB mouse is not recognized and
|doesn't work when I boot those disks. If I remember to disconnect
|the mouse from the USB port and use the adapter that came with it to
|connect to the PS2 port then it does work

I know PM7 loads DOS which has no USB support.
PM8 may be same.

I have 2 mice- they dont interfere.

HTH-Larry
Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.