Hard Drive Recovery in Process

So the (replacement) drive arrives yesterday at noon. I had the recovery disks (from the time before last when this happened). Install, install, install; update, backup, update.
All in all, about 1 Gigabyte of updates so far! Now I'm installing the 2 version of Office that I use. Which means more updates shortly. Then it will be time to start installing actual applications!
I'll be at this for a while. Wish me luck.