Cetin,

I'll try out NTFS after I get this new machine to do everything I was able to do on my old one.

I confirmed your observation about Write caching. Thanks very much for mentioning that, because I'd never have guessed! I wonder if this is common knowledge among those who use Win2K Pro, and if there is some automated procedure to avoid the extra manual steps on every reboot.

Mike

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>Michael,
>You already have good advices. Few additions :
>-Think of NTFS soon. It's not true you would have problems connecting from win9x machines. I have 2 partitions where one is FAT32 and win9x installed (dual boot). Sensitive data is on NTFS. I can connect to any one from anywhere (including remote from notebook -win9x- that's generally at home). NTFS is for security + its cluster size is 512K by default (1/8th of min possible on FAT32).
>-Write caching on win2K is 'reset' to ON with each boot. It's a bug or feature of win2K and you better set it manually to OFF on each boot.
>Cetin