Hmm.. My W2000 takes several minutes to boot,
I dont have a particulary slow HD I think..
My WinXP's boot speed is roughtly 25 seconds(Bootvis optimized)(roughtly with >8 applets loaded i.e. Norton Antivirus 2002, Norton Utilties 2002 applets, PC Health III applet, WinFast VIVO, Soundblaster Live applet, Ethernet monitor applet, USB control applet, mixer applet, nVidia applet, and 'etc' ).