>With W2K, you can format your boot partition with FAT (2GB max.) >and W2K will work fine. >Of course there is no security on a FAT or FAT32 partition. Depends what you mean by security. If it is related to people logging on to the machine then yes I agree with you, but connections across a network can be as secure as any other non-shared drive. It is only where security on a subdirectory of a shared drive is a problem that this would become an issue. If security is a real issue, then important stuff should be kept on a server and only accessed across a network for this very sort of reason, that it is easier to guarantee the security of the data. If a user can backup the data because it is on the machine they can access then restore it onto another machine where they can organise administrative privileges means it is not secure. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics