>So what exactly is a good layout to have? I've got a machine with a 2.5GB and a 7GB hard drives that I want to upgrade to W2K Server. Should I partition the drives into any particular sizes? Where should the OS live (and size)? The swap file (size (128MB ram))? I'd really like to know from someone who's been down these paths before. Thanks!


It depends on your needs. I recommend using a couple of IDE drives, one for the primary install of your NT Server, and the other to Ghost. Put your data on the SCSI drives if you have to. The newer IDE drives are almost as fast and a lot cheaper. If you are exposing this server to the web, you'll need to convert the installation from FAT16 to NTFS for security. As for swap files, I like to create a FAT partition for that because it's my understanding that it's faster than a NTFS partition (due to not having the security overhead, etc.) Also, the pagefile should be at least twice the size of installed RAM.