I am fairly sure USB drivers are loaded by default in safemode, so your drive would probably work. Don't recall any incident where I have had to do that though, so I may be totally mistaken.
Do you have onboard video of any kind or an alternate video card laying around? You could pull the offending card, do your download and install then put it back in.
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