Here's my problem. I have an old Dell P90 I'm assembling for a kid to use. P90 CPU, 64MB RAM, 6X CD-ROM and a new IBM 8.4GB Hard Drive. The PC will boot flawlessly to a Win98 Start-up disk. It creates the Ram Drive as C:, sets the CD-ROM as D: but doesn't see the Hard Drive. BIOS was just flashed to the latest version. The IBM diagnostic utility performs all tests successfully. I even, somehow, managed to boot to the Win98 Start-up disk, fdisk and format /s the hard drive, create a Win98 directory on the hard drive and copy the win98 files to the directory. I checked the BIOS settings (Floppy first then HDD or Hard Disk Only) If I select Hard Disk Only, the machine just stops with a Missing Operating System. If I selct Floppy first (and have no boot disk in) same thing. Any ideas?? I did check the drive jumpers, and tried 3 different ribbon cables. If the IBM utility sees the drive, why won't the system boot to it? 
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