kinda the way I pictured it. Internal fragmentation shouldn't be an option.

Okay another theory in my quest for ideal settings. First, does fdisking a hard drive with 98 boot disk cause any problems with installing W2K on an NTFS partition? meaining, if I create the partition in the FDISK and convert it to NTFS, is that bad?

If not, here is my ideal setting for W2k computer. (please correct my mistaken beliefs if so) Partition HD into small, 3-5 G, Fat32 partition to be win98 install. The rest, create as extended partition 2 that is to be formatted NTFS in the W2k install. Format partion 1 to have just 98 system files, format c: /s, and then install W2k. (this gives the option of later installing 98 if needed.) Then set the W2k swap file on C:. It is near beginning of drive, it is fat32 (faster access than NTFS?) and you won't run into the problem we just discussed when deleting and re-enabling the swap.

Thoughts?