that has changed, i have a 20 gig boot drive. i have 3 physicle drives total of 120 gigs divided into 6- 20 gig drives. I partitioned only to make defragging easier and to make dedicated swap drives. one is dedicated only to photoshop- one has poser only on it, one is my boot up drive, one has live jobs on it, the other two are not used yet ( i let photoshop have them for swaps for now, until i run out of room). I understand about changing the os tho ;) i used dos 5.0 until win95b came out then held onto that os until May of this year, when i went to win2k pro. I was getting too many "your os is too old to support this application" type messages. i hate upgrading os' and won't until i am absolutely forced to.