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Dual Boot -- lost mouse/keyboard in win7 after 10 installation
My setup: Intel i5 with 4Gb Ram with Nvidia GeForce GT 610 video card, 64Gb SSD (Win7), 330 Gb hdd (Win Vista), and 1Tb hdd.
I've been running Win7/Vista for several years now, and decided to upgrade to 10 as some of the new software I want won't run on those older OS's. Windows 7 on the SSD is for gaming only, with nothing else loaded onto it that is not gaming related, not even Acrobat. Everything else uses the 2 hard drives with the older 330 Gb hdd as bootable.
So I upgraded Vista to 7 SP1, and installed Win10. Everything went beautifully once I got SP1 on it. Worked for a few days then went to play a game, booted into 7 and no mouse or keyboard control. After I selected Win7 to boot into from the boot control screen, I had no control of anything. Had to hold the power key to shutdown.
I unplugged the power to the Win10 drive and re-booted. It gave me an error about a missing device and let me press F9 to boot into Win7, after which I had control of my mouse and keyboard. So now when I want to do some gaming I have to unplug my small Hdd and go about it that way, which seems totally insane and just plain wrong to do, but I can't think of anyway to fix this as it only shows up when the small drive is connected. If I do that and boot into 10 it doesn't see anything wrong with the drivers for the other OS, and when I boot into 7 I have no control to do anything at all to fix it <sigh>.
Whats a gamer to do?
Any help will be greatly appreciated by both myself and my grandchildren who drag me into these gaming sessions.
Thanks.