No dial-up after ugrade to winXP pro

[Rusty]

Ugraded from a working win 2000 system to win XP pro.
Discovered no dial-up details installed.
Tried to reinstall details, but dial-up greyed out on
connection screen - IDSL only offered.
Tested Lucent modem as detected and ok.
(hope this is not a repost - cannot find my post from 18
aug).

 

[TomC]

Why don't you just make a new connection? Assuming you use the Classic start
menu, Start > Settings > Network Connections > (Click on) File > New
Connection, and let the wizard walk you through it.

TomC

 

[Rusty]

TomC,
Thanks for your reply.
When I try to remake a connection the "Wizard" will not
offer a dial-up option (is greyed out).
Installing an alternate make modem did not work either; is
detected and installed and responds to Query, but dial-up
still greyed out.
Did a search on Google and found this is not an unusual
problem - may be fixed with service pak 1 upgrade?
However, obviously I do not have access to this large
download without a modem, and floppies on this computer
doesn't bear thinking about!
Any other solutions welcome!

 

[TomC]

Rusty;

If you cannot solve the greyed out modem connection (really?) and can't get
sp1 or sp2, I'd back up important files to CD or DVD or another hard drive,
then as a second backup, image the current C drive to a different hard drive
partition or to a removable drive using Norton Ghost or Drive Image or
whatever, and reinstall Windows to C: from scratch using your XP or XPPro
CD, destroying all data currently on C. Or, if you can convince the person
who's computer you used to post to this NG to let you download sp1 (125 MB)
or better sp2 (266 MB), then you might burn the update to CD and install it
to your current C drive. Either way your modem should be accessible
afterward.

If you have no D drive, or you don't have an imaging utility, you can use
Windows Backup to back up your C drive to a file on your C drive (you can't
do that with Ghost), and burn the result to DVD, or with AxMan or a similar
utility split the file into 700MB chunks that can be burned to CDRs. The
point here is just to back up your C drive before you replace it.

I know that this sort of shorthand, if it doesn't make sense please let me
know. I'm trying to (1) preserve your data if not your settings and (2) get
you back on the Internet. If you get there, rather than restoring your old C
drive, I'd recommend just reinstalling your apps, importing your backed up
data, and enjoying your nice clean registry for limited time it will survive
until it, too, is corrupted.

TomC