USB drivers won't load

I posted this under a different title, but I just realized that perhaps nobody is helping because the title was not really what I was asking.

So last week at work I had to re-image 20 Dell notebooks. I installed Windows on one of them, made an image of that drive, and then used that image to install on the other 19. Worked like a charm.

Basically what I did was:

1. Insert Ghost 2003 CD
2. Boot from CD
3. Install USB 2.0 drivers
4. Then used Ghost to make the image and store it on the external hard drive that was hooked up


Now, we just got an Acer Aspire 5520 from Best Buy the other night, way on clearance sale. I wanted to do this same thing to make an image of the disk, but it just doesn't seem to work. If I choose to load the USB 2.0 drivers, NOTHING happens, it just sits there on that screen. If I choose to load the USB 1.1 drivers, it seems like it does everything, but then the keyboard doesn't work for me to start the programs and stuff.

Please, can anyone help me? I want to make an image of this drive just the way it is, but then install my copy of Vista Ultimate on top of it.

 

use ps/2 or an old 1.1 usb keyboard to install OS n make a copy, lol. Acer doesnt let u edit bios to make it see usb 2.0

 

OK, never thought of the external keyboard idea. But then, my external hard drive to hook up is probably USB 2.0, so that probably still won't work.

 

if u got a PS/2 port on your laptop, use the keyboard with that port.. Shud work. The other way - try to find a tweakable BIOS to turn DOS USB 2.0 support.

 

Just a heads up.... DOS + USB = fail unless you add drivers into it. This is why I suggested the network solution.