X230 - Setup Is Preparing Your Computer For First Time Use

Dear all,
I just received my X230 bought on Ebay and as I first turned on the computer, Windows was frozen and showed "Setup Is Preparing Your Computer For First Time Use" for hours (I guess its a whole day). Since I do not have any recovery media provided, does anyone has alternative solution?
Thanks in advance!

Thanks! It took me a whole day to figure out what happened and I ended up format the whole drive and reinstall the windows. Yes, you are right, X230 is a good machine and acutally I was thinking to puchase X240 since there is kind of back to school program that you can purchase X240 at a deep discount price. After so many bad comments I chose X230 instead for:
1. Physical Trackpad button (which is extremely important as I ONLY use trackpoint)
2. 2 ram slots
3. normal voltage CPU
I am surfing the net with X230 and I am so happy I bought this.

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