An
NTFS Partition
To
successfully install AD you must
have at least one NTFS formatted
partition, preferably the partition
Windows is installed on (This is NOT
true when you have performance
issues on your mind. You will then
install the AD db on another
different fast physical disk, but
that's another topic). To convert a
partition (C:) to NTFS type the
following command in the command
prompt window:
convert c:/fs:ntfs
The
NTFS partition is required for the
SYSVOL folder.
Free space on your disk
You
need at least 250mb of free space on
the partition you plan to install AD
on. Of course you'll need more than
that if you plan to create more
users, groups and various
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