>>>The maximum size for the boot partition of an NT 4 (and I believe Win2K) system is 4 GB (7.8 GB if you jump through some hoops) so you're 10 GB partition is totally out of the question. See MS KB article Q119497 for an explanation of the workarounds.
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>>My boot partition on W2K is 20GB.
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>Thanks, Fred.
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>I wasn't sure about Win2K. It's good to know they increased the limit although I personally would never use it that way. My preference is to create a boot partition as small as I can get away with and have the rest for data and applications (mostly data).

I typically like to install the operating system on IDE drives using FAT. As Ed has mentioned Boot Magic is a great tool for this and allows me to have my development system with Win98 and Win2000 on the same machine. If the server needs raid, then I put the data on those. I have a client who is wrestling with a total raid configuration that went down hard last week. He's "saving money" by just picking my brain and him doing the work. So, now he is installing an IDE drive that will launch NT.

Hard drives have become so cheap, they are now a great backup solution also. I use ghost to backup my webserver from one 30 gig drive to another periodically.
This gives me a lot more peace-of-mind than a tape backup, because I can see the results. I've had tape drives/tapes go bad and been unable to restore.