Ilona, you will not be able to format a partition larger than 32GB on Win2K.... Having two hard drives will not slow down your machine; access to one of them might be slower depending on the speed of the two drives. Your swap file or pagefile should have a minimum size that is at least equivalent to your physical ram and no larger than 1.5 to 2 times the amount of physical ram you have. With nt4, 2k and xp, you can split your pagefile across partitions/drives, so the total should add up to those numbers. e.d. ps I am on XP, have plenty of free space, plenty of pagefile space, and I still get this error... usually on a scence with mutliple millenium figures, lots of lights, big props...