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I removed and backed up the hard drive before I started playing ;) well I installed after wiping the hard drive and it has worked, windows is activated and im now updating and reinstalling drivers, thank you all very much for your advise and support

before formatting I also changed "boot list option" to uefi and then tried ata,ahci and raid without luck, strangely if I look in "uefi boot" under boot options there is only the dvd listed in there.it is though listed along with network under "legacy boot" option

thanks I downloaded 8.1, chose to install on drive 0 partition 5 which had O.S as the name, formatted first, now getting the windows cannot be installed on drive 0 partition 5 gpt partition error msg. I can use the 'clean' command in cmd prompt but that will wipe everything, is this my only option?

hi thanks for replies, followed the link and tried the bcdboot c:\windows command but get failure when attempting to copy boot files message

hi, I have a dell alienware 14 running windows 8 which wont boot im getting no boot device found. have checked bios and its in legacy mode, ata, hard drive top of list of boot options. shift-f8 should bring up recovery but isn't have put in a windows 8 disk and tried automatic repair...