Dell PC no PS2 Connector on format USB Keyboard stops working?

Had a look at a Dell PC today running XP with a Vista upgrade or was - currentlly not





Owner decided to compress C Drive making PC unbootable -





He has original XP disc and when inserted into DVD-Rom works fine, boots from cd and starts to copy files, when it gets to "press enter to continue" to install a fresh copy of XP back onto the Hard Drive the USB Keyboard does not work (THE TOWER DOES NOT HAVE A PS2 CONNECTOR) so therefore we are unable to move forwards, we have tried different keyboards and all work fine up to this point





My main thought would be remove the SATA Hard Drive and install it in a PC that does have a PS2 Connector - or is there something i'm missing that I can change in the BIOS to make the USB sockets work beyond this point





best regards and thanks for any help Barry

Dell PC no PS2 Connector on format USB Keyboard stops working?
Your problem may be that WinXP doesn't recognize the hard drive. In most installs onto a SATA hard drive, you have to provide a chipset driver for the SATA controller so that XP can "see" the hard drive.


There is a section early on in the install to enter this driver where you are prompted to press F6 to provide it.