Was using one of my XP laptop's last night and the thing hung up big time. By the time I rebooted it, it's not showing a modem. It says the modem was removed. The laptop is an HP XP and I had gone through this before about a year ago and it magically appeared back right before I was left with the choice of reinstalling everything on the computer per INDIA's advice.

So before I bother with calling India, I thought I might try FT for help.