Hi,
I had my hardrive removed from a Lenovo notebook, which had broken hardware.
It got virtualized and put into a virtual machine, with some helpfull posts in this Forum.
Now when booting up, the OS boots correctly (I checked with Windows Startup repair, and the reports etc - all fine) yeah....
However I can not login,because the keyboard is not recognized (no, I don't have Ps2 it is USB and it is linked and recognized and does work - UNTIL - the logon screen appears)
apparently the Lenovo notebooks (and some others) have some drivers inherited (mouse pointers whatever, lenovo keyboards dunno)..... so I need to bypas the log on routine so that I can install the VMware tools. - or disable this odd driver.... so that the standard keyboard driver is used.......
Obviously on screen keyboard to login also doesn't work ....
First hurdle/attempt is.... I need to create an auto logon..... I tried this in the registry with my username and also the password.
The harddrive has 3 partitions.... first the recovery partition...system whatever.... x: bootup
I got there with:
Windows Startup repair utilities (pressing the F8 key on startup etc)
Then command line ( after puttin in my crdentials I think I was doing this as admin (it said so)
then I naviagated to the partition
c: regedit
d: regedit
e: regedit
x: regedit
When in the registry I added the strings to HTKLM/windws NT / winlogon etc. ..... many posts on this online (.. I m sure the pro s here....know this)
Autologon - set to "1"
User - set
Passwod - set
I actually did this on all 4 partitions.... just to make sure.....
However it seems the changes don't come through and I still can not access my OS - still no keyboard - still I am asked to login
Second hurdle/attemt I tried was
Finding the drivers via the prompt line and commands.... I tried using driverquery....and so on........ I couldn't get there
So I could neither navigate to the drivers, nor could I list my drivers.... put aside uninstalling the one driver that might be my odd "Lenovo" driver
Probably a lack of skill to do this correctly here.........
Third hurdle/atemp
I wanted to install VMware tools from outside the VM .... with my credentials ...... but I don't know how to do this either.
This is now evening 3..... frustration levels are high and I tested all the above without really knowing what I am doing.... Really I am more a user than a "registry editor" .....
I am already quite proud that I managed to get this VM working...... !!!!
All ideas so far appear not to lead anywhere....
I am not even sure if this is the right forum......where I placed this.......sorry if it is....
Any ideas possibly step by step instructions would be sincerely appreciated....
thank you