Actually you said and I copy & pasted
Please note: There may be the possibility of some data removal when atttempting a repair of the Windows XP operating system?
I don't call that a 'warning'. I don't have a problem with loosing some data.
You could have just said that it wouldn't matter if I repaired or re-installed, I'm going to loose what I had anyway. That would have been a warning.
I would have not gone through all this bs if I have know I would actually loose everything. If I'm going to loose it, then I could have just saved all the aggravation of trying to repair it.
As far as the computer coming with the os, it didn't. I had to buy that seperate and install it myself.
I'm going to go see what it is doing, I'll let you know.