altoidz Posted December 30, 2006 CID Share Posted December 30, 2006 My computer all of a sudden just crashed on me, so I tried to boot it back up. I would just get a quick flash of blue when I saw the Windows logo and it would reboot itself again. I tried booting in safe mode and that worked, so I just took out my Windows CD and put it in. Now I'm trying to repair windows by pressing R on the selected partition and during the "Installing Devices" part I get a pop up saying: "The file 'nv4_mini.sys' on NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Driver Library Installation Disk 1 is needed. Type the path where this file is located, and then click OK" Well it seems like I'm in trouble since the installation disabled both my mouse and keyboard, so I can't really do anything nor do I know where that file is anyway. I don't really feel like reformatting, so I was wondering if there was a workaround? By the way, there have been no recent software or hardware changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted December 30, 2006 CID Share Posted December 30, 2006 My first guess would be to turn it off and plug the mouse and keyboard back in then boot up again. Hope that helped. It did for me once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altoidz Posted December 30, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 30, 2006 Aww. Just tried it and it didn't work. It still kills my mouse and keyboard halfway, so I can't enter in the info and complete the installation. Hmm... I will reformat if things get bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted December 30, 2006 CID Share Posted December 30, 2006 As long as things are backed up, sometimes it is really quicker just to reformat. Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted December 31, 2006 CID Share Posted December 31, 2006 Are your keyboard and mouse USB? I would see if you can find a ps2 keyboard and try it with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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