my 5 yr. old brutalizes computers; so a new one is not happenin - but i gave her my old ibm pc350 p90 which has been upgraded a bit however there seems to be no way to change the original hard drive which is only a 530mb drive. im only hopin to get it to 2g and change the os to w98 or above, Is there no way to do this?? bios updates dont help me out

I'm confused by the question...what do you mean there's "no way to change the original hard drive"?

If you're talking about some sort of BIOS limitation, go to the manufacturer's website for the brand of hard drive you have & download their overlay software

Have you installed hdd into comp ? If so did you set hdd jumpers correctly? Went into bios settings and see if it was detected?
What steps have you taken so far?

With a pentium board you should be able to run up to 4 ide devices, two on each ide conector (you need 2 ide cable). As I doubt you have three optical or other sort of drives beside the harddrive you should be able to just add the 2GB harddrive.
On drive has to be jumpered as master and the second on the cable as slave. If take it out and write down the name you should be able to find the jumper settings of nearly every drive on the net (I even got that for an old 130MB drive).

There are certain barriers for harddrive size set by the way the bios deals with the drive. If you can do a bios update to raise them every manufacturer offers a special software to download on their sites (EZ-Drive for Western Digital, MaxBlast for Maxtor, ...).

About the OS stay with Win95 because Win98 will slow you down. I just tried on my old Pentium 133 with 64MB EDO Ram a few weeks ago and switched back to win95c.
Win98 takes more drivespace and wants more resources and cpu power because it has more stuff running in the background!

The PC350 has a proprietary case, and I think she's talking about how difficult it is to mess with the brackets and so forth to replace the hard disk, but I'm guessing she hasn't even filled all the bays. I'm looking at a manual for the PC350 (Type 6587) and it has 2 extra 3.5" ide drive bays (compared to the PC330), so she could probably put another hard disk in there. Open the PC up, Denise, and look - doesn't it have 5 drive bays (view from the front: 3 on the right and 2 just to the left of those)? Or, is your IBM PC350 not at all like that in the manual I'm referring to?

How much memory does this PC have? If you're considering going to '98, you're probably better off sticking with 95 (unless you have software that requires 98) if you have less than 64 Meg of RAM; or, upgrade to 64 Meg.

Good luck.