K8N Neo Platinum2 FSR-more problems installing (HDD)

Well, guess who's back-back again...after all my travails getting the system to just BOOT now it won't read ANYTHING from floppy diskette or CD-Rom. I've tried a variety of solutions from Western Digitals Lifeguard 11.0 utilities disk, an old WIN 98 boot disk, and an ancient DOS 6.22 install disk-nothing will load to the HDD. I always get an I/O error or nothing happens at all. I have NEVER had such a rediculous run of luck as this over a half dozen new system installs. After last nights uphoriah over solving the power up problem I find myself in a state of disbelief. This is just too much. Brand new equipment all around only to get S#^! for a result. I am so disgusted right now. Of course,it will end up being something so simple that I have no clue about but for now I am simply disgusted. Open to any suggestions.
thanks

Well, more frustration on my part it seems. I turned the FDD cable around-plugging the end with the twist into the drive itself (red line to the left) and unplugged the DVD drive, removed the jumper from the Burner thinking FOR SURE this was the answer..and nothing. Same thing. I put in the Western Digital partition diskette (brand new) into the FDD, power up, get into BIOS no prob, no errors, diskette starts "Caldera MS-DOS", loads XMS mem manager, creates virtual disk drive D: and everything stops..........light on the FDD stays on and nothing happens. I leave it sitting for 5, 10 minutes and nothing happens. This is exasperating. NEVER had this happen once I got to the point of formatting the drive for install. Really weird. It just hangs. What about that issue you kept mentioning with the case USB connections? Could that possibly cause such a glitch??? I'm using an Arctronix Guardian case-the one with the Cylon-esque blue light that roams back and forth. Pretty cool stuff.
Oh, and I tried booting from the Western Digital BOOTABLE cd-rom after changing boot priorities to cd-rom then HDD...still the same result. It goes to the point of installing the IDE CD-ROM device driver and freezes. Could I be so unbelievably unlucky as to have purchased a bad HDD from WD?????????????????At this point??????

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Sap147
Can you give us what the D-Bracket was showing ie
R R
G R
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GG
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GG
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