How do I re-install drivers from the HP recovery disks?

I recently bought an HP. I used my trusty dynex 5 button mouse and plugged it in as soon as I started up windows after setting up the computer. Everything worked fine until recently. Windows would rapidly detect and un-detect the mouse and now it doesn't detect it at all. The usb's still detect my external hdd, so it's gotta be some kind of driver issue even though the mouse worked flawlessly when I first got the computer

How do I re-install the drivers for the USB client? The computer did not come with any disks, I had to burn the recovery disks when I first got the computer.

 

remove the mouse driver, and reinstall the mouse driver

 

Your drivers should be in C:/SWSETUP.

 

To answer your question, the “Recovery Disk” is only an image of the factory delivery state of the HDD. You can not reinstall drivers or recover individual files from the recovery disk. If you’re not careful and decide to tinker with the recovery disks, you could accidentally wipe your drive.

(Expanding on Velocity’s post ) With the mouse plugged in via USB, use the touchpad to uninstall the mouse driver via Device Manager… then unplug the mouse and reboot the computer. After the computer has restarted, plug the mouse back into the unit (sometimes using a different USB port will help). Windows should recognize the mouse and re-install the drivers for you. If it does not, and you have a manufacturer-supplied driver, reinstall the driver manually. If you do not have a driver, you can check here. Perhaps they may have one that will work for you.

Also, after you’ve removed the mouse driver and rebooted the computer… and before you reinstall the mouse via USB, you could search the registry for “Dynex” and manually remove all instances that refer to a Dynex Mouse and then reboot again. This could help eliminate any possibility of a driver conflict or corruption. Warning though, you need to be comfortable using the system registry if you choose to do this.

 

OMD is right on in regard to the recovery CD, as to the drivers I definately recommend going to dynex's website if they have one and see if there are updated drivers for your external mouse, then remove the current ones (I'm making the assumption that they were win 7 installed drivers here, if not still get the latest) reboot and install the new ones.

Likey not the issue, but check in BIOS that all USB settings are enabled for what you are using, I know of some where USB is broken down in terms of support for ext drives, mouse and KB. Won't hurt to look at them and if ok to just exit without saving changes.