G'day LL34,
It was always an NTFS partition, never converted or anything like that. All I ever did was change the size of the partition by moving the boundary between adjacent NTFS partitions. That was over a year ago and I don't think relates to the current issue.
The MS article is a good read. You'll find more if you use the Google search I suggested.
My understanding is that W2k (on NTFS, of course) does indeed work very much the the same way, though there are some minor differences, I think. Or perhaps they're between NT4 and 2000/XP. BTW it's not paging that raised the issue, it's the Master File Table, part of NTFS.
And to properly answer your question, yes,
AFAIK paging works the same way on W2k as it does on XP (subject, of course, to being wrong!! - I've never used W2k, my only knowledge is what I've gleaned in reading.)
AA