Recovering from corrupted USB install

I recently tried to install the USB tools from the developer site. The installation failed when rebooting.
The end result is that my USB ports, including the internal keyboard and trackpad, no longer work.
How do you recover a Macbook Pro when you cannot type or use the mouse to restore from your Time Capsule? My laptop is effectively bricked....
Things tried....
cmd+s on startup, takes me to the correct prompt, so the keyboard was obviously working for a second, however now I am at the root prompt and I cannot type.
shift on startup, also works, however once the load is finished, the jkeyboard and mouse still do not work.
It is obvious that the input is being seen at the start of the process, however the USB config is being loaded and therefore corrupting this.
Any ideas how to solve this? As I have time capsule, I am happy to blow my drive away, however as I am on Lion, I do not have discs, plus I do not have enough control to boot from them anyway.......
Regards
Chris H

I believe mende1's response is slightly incorrect. On older Mac computers that came with an internal DVD drive the only way to install Windows on those Mac's is from that internal DVD drive. Even if you connect an external DVD drive OS X and or the Mac computer Firmware will not allow the Win install DVD to boot from that external DVD drive. It must be done from the internal DVD drive. So if yours has failed then you would need to have it replaced before you can install Windows on your Mac.
I know this from personally trying to install Windows from an external DVD drive even when there is an internal DVD still in the system. My late 2011 MBP would not load the Win install from the external DVD drive but would from the internal DVD drive.
3str wrote:
Thank you for your reply. But this is really disappointing. My optic drive has died long time ago.........

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Picture 2
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Picture 3
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Picture 4
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Picture 5

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Link to picture
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My macbook is an early 2010... now I'm wondering if Yosemite is a bit too much for it?
The ext hdd is my timemachine backup, so yes I have used it often and it has my TM backups - and the usb is a new usb which Ive used a few times.
The issue seems to be when Im transferring files from an ext drive to my mac. I can use it fine and browse (worked find for 45 mins) then I tried to bring my data across.. and it copied a few gig over before total freeze.
This has happened about a dozen times.
I keep running disk utility and checking the disk. I also just ran the apple diagnostics tool that came in the apps cd - the hardware apears to be fine.
I have a 250 gb partition for the OS and the rest is my second partition for data.
I'm now wondering if I should reformat the first partition, install leopard from the CD, then upgrade to mavericks and leave it at that.
Any thoughts would be awesome. Thank you for reading and replying!
Hoz

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