I have recently successfully set up a Win98/2000 dual boot system. I was in the process of upgrading the drivers on my monster 3d card, but after successfully upgrading I now cannot use Win98. Explorer.exe is crashing upon startup (in normal or safe mode) and I cannot figure how to get the system repaired. I thought of reinstalling the Win98 software, but was afraid it may cause damage to the Win2000 OS. Since Explorer.exe keeps crashing I cannot use MSCONFIG to alter the startup in any fashion, nor use regedit to remove the offending entries, my only recourse seems to use DOS mode to try to repair what is wrong. I've tried to create a bootdisk (floppy) but the floppy isn't initialized (not sure why...)

Ok, let talk about the many crash of explorer.exe, i have two machine with the same problem of crashing with explorer.exe the first is a dual boot with win2k+win98 with ATI All-in-Wonder Pro 128 and of course DIRECTX 8, and the second machine a dual boot with only Win98 install for now, a graphic card ATI RAGE FURY PRO AGP 4x...and of course DIRECTX 8, I Have many crash of EXPLORER.exe on both machines in Win98 and Win2k.....Very Strange the only same factor is DIRECTX 8... I Reload my Windows2000 3 TIMES this week and of course all the time with DIRECTX 8, the same problem occur every time, I blank all my drives with DATA ERASER to be shure is was not a VIRUS on both machine then and i reload Win98 on the first machine and on the second i reload Win2k......watch the results... Machine 1 reload with WIN98 ver.2 with directx8 = after many hours to be on, i have done nothing under windows and it crash in EXPLORER.exe Machine 2 reload with win2k without DIRECTX8 and nothing append with hours of internet or explorer and so on.... Maybe your are in a similar position as me I have been very suspecious about DIRECTX8... Viper The One -------------