reload step 2 – look, it’s alive!
Well, that went as well as could be expected. The system booted just fine and I blew away the C: drive. There is currently 7.45 GB left on my C: drive out of the 8.78 GB I started with. I am currently grabbing the windows Service Pack 1 from the web and then I will be installing it and doing windows updates.
All things considered, it took about 45 minutes total to do the beginning load out.