It was time to upgrade the harddrive in one of my boxes so a ran a manual backup, swapped the drive and booted off the restore CD. When running the restore CD it loads a small window with a message about "initializing windows, loading drivers, etc." It took probably 10 minutes for the process to get past this screen. I initially rebooted at this screen and then on the second try I let it sit for a while and it finally got past it. Should it have taken so long?
System: Athlon 1.4mhz, 1gig Ram
Anyway, everything seems to have worked perfectly. I was concerned that I may have to reactivate XP because of the hardware change, but I never got the prompt.