The problem I have had with that in the past is it tended to be the modem drivers that were adrift,but you are right I will do the job here.
The version of XP I have is the upgrade from windows 98,ie I have to load win98 first,I suppose if I just upgrade his version on XP to XP pro I will still have all the same problems at the end so I recon twill be best to do a completely clean instal.
Its ok chaps just thinking aloud
Another thunk strikes one,I have never formated a disk with XP on it,will my windows 98 floppy boot disk allow me to format the disk?,it would not allow me to format a disk I had with Win2k on it.