Because of an unfortunate mouse driver corruption incident, when I reboot my machine, as soon as windows starts coming up my keyboard and mouse die...the keyboard works until the first sniff of windows.

I made a big mistake by attempting to run the windows repair option hoping to correct the problem but as the computer is running the repair/setup disk it ask me to insert certain driver disks and then click "OK". Well I can't click ok or use keyboard because neither functions so I am caught in the black hole of death and have to power off the machine. I presume the only way to repair this is to reboot and the do an F8, get to the C: prompt and type in something to at least get my keyboard function back......but what do I type there?

By the way it's the same deal when I attempt to fix this by going into safe mode. As most of you know just before you boot into safe mode it ask you if you "want to continue into safe mode and to click "OK".....stuck again. No way to select "OK" with no mouse or keyboard function. Have to just power machine off. USB does not function either. My attempt to load the new mouse drivers apparently took out USB function so using a USB keyboard and mouse did nu\ot work either.

The only way I am posting this now is because I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro on a piggy back drive so I could access the forum here. As you can see my keyboard and mouse work fine on this clean install on the same computer, but I need to get back to the C: drive.....I have years of stuff on it.....any suggestions?