Windows 10: System reverted back to Windows 7 and cant upgrade to 10 again.

I recently had to perform a system recovery and when it did, it reverted back to windows 7. I am trying to upgrade again to Windows 10, but can't get my activation key to work.

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Windows 10 upgrade problem, no input accepted

I really hate having to come here and ask for help, but I really am stumped. It hurts my geek pride. I have a PC with fairly modern hardware in it. It has a p8p67 pro in it. I have tried upgrading windows 10 on it twice now. Both times I have had the same result.

After windows finishes upgrading it goes to the log in/set up screen. I can't do anything. No keyboard or mouse input is accepted.

I will list some, or hopefully all, of the troubleshooting steps I have tried:

• Move keyboard and mouse to different USB ports.
• Try different keyboard or mouse.
• Restart computer, repeatedly.
• Google for related issues.
• Update Bios, because why not.
• Create boot media and revert to windows 7.

The windows 10 system restore boot media works fine with keyboard and mouse. All USB ports work in windows 7. I don't know what is wrong. I suspect that windows 10 is lacking a driver of some sort, but since the computer accepts no input I have no way of checking for which driver let alone installing it.

Please help me figure this out. If I have to revert back to windows 7 again, I am not going to get it upgraded to windows 10. Thank you in advanced.

 

Windows 10 upgrade problem, no input accepted

i've seen this when the stock USB drivers went kaput. Only ever seen it once - i used a PCI USB 2.0 card and connected the mouse and keyboard to that, and manually updated the USB 2/USB 3 drivers.

 

Upgraded to Windows 10, revert to Windows 7 fails

Going by the posts in this forum it is obvious that a substantial number of machines suffer from serious problems following an upgrade to Windows 10. The percentage is even higher among those that revert to Windows 7. I can see these options for you:

• Do a clean installation of Windows 10, then re-install your applications. You will get a rock-solid operating system (which is often not the case with upgrades).
• Do a clean installation of Windows 7.

From what I have seen in this forum, rolling back to Windows 7 is unlikely to be successful.