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first go into the BIOS and see what the system is recognizing the Hard Drive as. If the system is too old it won't recognize the Hard drive properly and you will have all sorts of problems trying to boot to it. Then
if you have nothing on the drive you care about and assuming you have a windows 98 boot disk, boot the system and then from the dos prompt type:
'Fdisk' and check the partition information again make sure you can properly partition the full size of the drive, installing windows from the CD doesn't always set this up correctly. I would delete any current partition information and create a whole new one. Make sure it sets the partition as active or it won't boot. Then reboot the system from the floppy boot disk and type 'format c:' from the dos prompt. This is the only way to make sure the partition is set up correctly. From here you should be able to load any OS you would like without worrying about anything.
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