How to boot XP in safe mode and use mouse

[Consciousness]

So thanks to hunterjoules i can now restart windows normally, however i still need to boot into safe mode with the use of my trackpad (mouse) are there any fixes for this?

Thanks in advance

 

[Consciousness]

Boot camp XP Safe mode Problems!!

I still cannot boot XP into Safe Mode using Boot Camp without losing all functionality of my keyboard and mouse, can anybody HELP! Is there a way around this?

MacBook White 2Ghz OS X Leopard
Boot Camp 2.1
Windows XP SP3
Partitioned NTFS

 

[ZMacintosh]

I still cannot boot XP into Safe Mode using Boot Camp without losing all functionality of my keyboard and mouse, can anybody HELP! Is there a way around this?

MacBook White 2Ghz OS X Leopard
Boot Camp 2.1
Windows XP SP3
Partitioned NTFS

you have to press F8 immediately after selecting the XP partition.

might need to do fn+F8

 

[Consciousness]

Hi, ZMac, I have tried this and still get the results no mouse or keyboard.

Any other ideas?

 

[Quartz Extreme]

Do you know if a USB mouse works?

 

[Consciousness]

I have a feeling a USB Keyboard or mouse might work also, unfortunately i don't have access to on at the moment, so was looking for some other solution.

So far i have enabled the autologon feature and am looking into disabling the logon screen to see if i can go straight to the command prompt.

We'll see.

 

[Consciousness]

Still no luck! i am out of ideas. I cant believe something as critical as mouse and keyboard operation would be unoperable. What kind of half baked solution is this to seamlessly intergrate windows and OS X.

Well if i havn't come up with a solution soon i will just have to buy a usb mouse and see if that works, although i have read reports of none of these working at times with parallels install issues. It seems Boot camp has some of its own.

Waiting in hope.