PAYG dial up

[jon1968]

I've a recently deceased laptop running Win98SE that has some important stuff on it but it only opens in safe mode but I've established I can get a dial up connection even with the minimal capabilities that 'safe mode' offers.

I need to use a pay as you go dial up connection to download a driver for a pen drive so I can put all my bumpf on it. Can anyone recommend one, only going to need it for about 10 mins to download the driver?

[jon1968]

Thanks fender, if I just put the WIN98 disc in will it sort itself out do you think?

I don�t know what�s wrong with it - I�ve trawled the web and I believe the techie term is that it �Hangs�??

It gets to the opening screen with the Windows98 logo and then goes no further. �M$ don�t have support for Win98 anymore - don�t blame them really!!

Probably beyond economical repair, I�ve just brought a new laptop anyway but would like to get my stuff off of the old one - it�s only about 100MB of bumpf I want to transfer - nothing vital but lot�s of tunes etc that won�t fit on a floppy��bugger!

[camioneur]

payg dial up 0845 20001234 username-dialup, password-free

[jon1968]

Thanks camioneur, who is that through? Have you used them?
I googled �free ISP�s� & �dial up connections� etc and got an equal number of good reports and horror stories about the PAYG providers where you don't use a recognised company - what a palaver for a bloody driver!!

[RavenD]

I would recommend flash drives by TRUST or MSI...but reinstalling win98 over should reinstall all vital files and it should boot normally, unless the reason it hangs is due to the fact it might have been infected by a nasty virus, the reason a PC hangs is that it cannot complete the normal boot process,ussally as one of the boot up files is missing or corrupt. Reinstall win98 over the top and like I said it should clear the problem :)

[jon1968]

Thanks RavenD, I�ve already brought a cheapy pen drive but it didn�t have a driver on a disc hence my problem �maybe that�s where I went wrong!!

I don�t have the WIN98 disc to hand but I�ll dig it out at the weekend when trying to sort out my driver problem and give it a go.

Thanks again