Last evening, I installed McAfee Antivirus software to the home computer. Installation was successful; ran a scan of the entire system's files and got several error messages (file infected and cannot be repaired, delete and reload from backup). Followed the instructions. At the end, reran scan for infections and got only 5 error messages this time. Deleted files as instructed. At this point the screen locked up; therefore rebooted and screen locked up at Windows 95 logo page (therefore, couldn't read c-drive). Used Windows start up disc and when I typed in c: or d: to reload Windows, got error message "invalid drive specification". Any ideas as to how best fix this problem?

H:this messages indicates that ur Pc is unable to find a HDD or a floppy drive that setup tells it to expect .on the other hand ur HDD drive may have a corrupted partition table...laters,Dianna.

You must be very careful when you delete files! Don't do it just because the program tells you to. Sometimes you must stop and consider what it is you are doing. It is possible for the program that you are running to be in error. There is obviously a connection between file deletion and your problem. Does the AV program keep an ongoing log of what operations were performed? You need to find out what files were deleted and replace them with a backup copy or copy from some other source.

Make sure that you using a Windows 98 or 95b boot disk (DOS 7.10) because anything earlier won't support FAT32 partitions. You can't get an invalid drive spec message just from deleting files.