Removed my USB drivers and now I can’t use mouse or keyboard

My USB drive wasn’t loading properly, so I uninstalled the USB drivers. Now my keyboard and mouse don’t work once the computer boots into windows. What can I do?

UPDATE: Managed to do a system restore from the startup repair thing. Would still like to know how to get our of this situation without doing that.

Solution 1:

If the rest of your PC is operating correctly, I would install an expansion USB card. When the computer boots up, it should install drivers for common chipset with no problem. Though you mentioned logging in, I'm under the impression that you should still get basic USB function for keyboard and mouse.

Failing that, if you have a USB 3.0 header, you can plug a USB 2.0 device in USB 3.0 socket and the USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 run off different controllers so should hopefully give you enough love to login and restore your old drivers.

Last is the Windows disk as you mentioned as it will load drivers from the disk, though it's always messy do a system repair as sometimes it breaks more than it fixes.

Solution 2:

Since USB is recognized when you plug it in, trying unplugging both mouse and keyboard. Turn off computer. Wait one minute, then turn on computer. Wait till everything is done loading, and plug both in again. Windows should recognize the usb connections and reinstall usb drivers.