I had command Anitivirus which i removed and installed Mcafee version
4. while installing Mcafee i was told to create a emergency disk(for
booting in a virus free environment in case of a outbreak)and
afterwards during completion of the installation i was told to test
the emergency disk by cold booting the machine using the emergency
disk. I did that and while the emergency disk was scanning the system
files I rebooted the machine as i thought that the disk was working
successfully. After that i could not get beyond the splash screen. i
installed win98 3 times but was stuck with the same problem. Googling
led me to ways to fix the registry but since i had installed the OS
three times the registry had no information about the mcafee
installed. Also as OS was installed 3 times the autoexec.bat and
config.sys renaming did not help. I am able to get the command prompt
but cannot move forward. Also i renamed the mcafee folder but even
that did not help. I dont want to format the disk as i did not back up
my data as was just removing an old virus scanner and installing a new
Virus scanner.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks