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DORLAIE - 07 Jun 2004 15:14 GMT

The computer does not recongize a mouse attached upon
boot, then I add new hardware and it sees the mouse. I
try to add the driver from the win95 disc or the driver
on a cd (downloaded from Logitech) and it will not go to
cd drive and look for it. It goes to the A drive, you can
hear the access, but when I type the cd drive in it does
not go there and tells me it cannot find it. Unless it
does go to the cd drive and just cannot find the mouse
driver on the win 95 disc. The mouse driver is in the
directory of the win95 disc as mscmouse.drv and IS NOT in
a cabinet. The driver downloaded from Logitech is not
labeled "mouse.drv" it has another name. I have not tried
to rename that file and then try to add the mouse. But
the win95 should have the mouse.drv accessable in the add
new hardware wizard.
THis mouse was on this computer in the past and then I
took it to another place and it will not work. I have
NEVER seen an O/S not detect a mouse! IT is frustrating
to work because if the mouse.drv truly is in a cabinet
it is hard to navigate to get the drive out of a cabinet.
I was thinking of doing two things:
Rename the Logitech driver
Copy the Logitech and/or the mouse.drv from win95 disc to
a floppy
WHat do you think?

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Yuriy Shkolnikov [MSFT] - 09 Jun 2004 03:10 GMT

Try the following: when you do add hardware, find a button have disk and
browse to the disk where the mouse drivers are located.

You can also try installing generic mouse driver

However, before the reinstallation of the driver, I'd recommend to delete
the old drive in the device manager

Regards,
Yuriy

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> The computer does not recongize a mouse attached upon
> boot, then I add new hardware and it sees the mouse. I
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> a floppy
> WHat do you think?

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 09 Jun 2004 04:42 GMT

I have already tried the "have disk" and directed the
system to look at the CDrom for the driver and it says
that it is not there.

How do you install a generic mouse driver? from the O/S
disc?
Tried that also, but it still tells me that it is not
found on the win95 disc.
that is my problem. you can hear it access the A drive,
but when I put the CD drive in the search for the driver,
it does not access the drive ( or at least I don't hear
it accessing the drive) and comes up with, the statement
that it can't find the driver.

CAn I copy the "have disk" drier from Logitech onto the A
drive and then try and/or copy the mscmouse.drv from the
win95 to the A drive since it seems to go there OK?
I know that wine 95 defaults to the A drive upon boot,
etc. maybe that is the probme here.

It is hard to do these things without a mouse, but I will
try to delete the mouse driver in there now..

Why does it not detect the mouse upon booting but detects
it with add new hardware?

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