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Solution For Non-Functional Keyboard and Mouse After Windows 7 Boot Camp Restore - Twocanoes Softwar

This document provides a workaround to resolve the issue of a non-functional keyboard and mouse when restoring a Windows 7 Boot Camp installation on newer Mac hardware that relies on USB3. The suggested workaround involves: 1. Booting the Windows 7 Boot Camp partition in a virtual machine on MacOS to allow installation of USB3 drivers. 2. Copying the USB3 drivers to the virtual machine and configuring it to auto-install the drivers on boot. 3. Booting directly from the Boot Camp partition, which will now have functioning keyboard and mouse due to the installed USB3 drivers.

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Solution For Non-Functional Keyboard and Mouse After Windows 7 Boot Camp Restore - Twocanoes Softwar

This document provides a workaround to resolve the issue of a non-functional keyboard and mouse when restoring a Windows 7 Boot Camp installation on newer Mac hardware that relies on USB3. The suggested workaround involves: 1. Booting the Windows 7 Boot Camp partition in a virtual machine on MacOS to allow installation of USB3 drivers. 2. Copying the USB3 drivers to the virtual machine and configuring it to auto-install the drivers on boot. 3. Booting directly from the Boot Camp partition, which will now have functioning keyboard and mouse due to the installed USB3 drivers.

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Solution for non-functional keyboard and mouse after Windows 7

Boot Camp restore


Windows 7 does not include default USB3 drivers, so when restoring Windows 7 Boot Camp to newer Mac
hardware that relies on USB3 for keyboard and mouse, you may find no user input control to proceed with
installing Boot Camp drivers. The following guide explains a workaround for resolving this issue.

There is a quicker fix that may or may not work, but worth trying first. See “Set Boot Mode” support
document for details.

TL;DR: Boot from a virtual machine, set up auto-install of USB3 drivers, then boot directly intoBoot
Camp.

Virtual machine hosts on OS X includeParallels, VMWare Fusion and Oracle VM Virtualbox. Use the
vendor support information for installing the vm and linking it to Boot Camp. If you have never used a
virtual machine previously, you may find that you prefer the convenience of using Windows within OS X.
However, this solution uses the virtual machine as a temporarymeasure toget device drivers installed so
Boot Camp is functional when booteddirectly from the hardware.

Please note that this solution applies to Windows 7 loss of keyboard and mouse control. This solution is
not applicable for Windows 8 or above.

Using Boot Camp Assistanton the same Mac that contains the Boot Camp partition,download the latest
Windows support software from Apple to a USB flash drive.

Start up Boot Camp as a virtual machine.

Attach the USB flash drive containing the Boot Camp drivers.

From the virtual machine Windows desktop, copy the $WinPEDriver$ directory from the Boot Camp
folder on the flash drive to the Windows desktop.

Copy the remaining Boot Camp drivers directory to the desktop (for convenience in installing later)

In Windows, uninstall Boot Camp from Control Panel-> Programs and Features. The drivers and Boot
Camp program will be reinstalled later. If the uninstall fails, use the Microsoft Fixit tool to remove Boot
Camp from Windows: https://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_file_and_folder_diag/en-us

Setup the administrator account to auto-login at boot. This tutorial explains how to set this account for
auto-login: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/377-log-automatically-startup.html
Disable UAC. The tutorial linked below refers to the”Vista” operating system but is equally applicable to
Windows 7:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-control-uac-the-easy-way-on-
windows-vista/

Create a shortcut for the “Setup.exe” located in $WinPEDriver$IntelxHCISetup and place the shortcut file
in the Run-> Startup folder. Right click the $WinPEDriver$IntelxHCISetupSetup.exe file and select
Properties. At the end of the string in the Target field, add “-s”, which will install the driver in silent mode.

Note:If you cannot find a Target field in the Properties of the Setup.exefile, it may be necessary to add
the -s in the Target field of the shortcut file placed in the Run-> Startup folder instead.

Shut down the virtual machine. Restart the Mac while holding the Option key and select BOOTCAMP as
the startup volume.

If everything was configured correctly as described above, Windows should automatically log in to the
administrator account and run the setup for the USB drivers, thus enabling keyboard and mouse control.

With user interface control restored, you may proceed with installing Boot Camp from
BOOTCAMPsetup.exe which should install the remaining drivers and have a fully functional Boot Camp
system.

As a final cleanup step,re-enable UAC, password-required, etc.

The above workaround is not directly related to Winclone, but if you have questions we will do our best to
answer. Contact us at [email protected]

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