thesystmwilfail
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Hello, I recently had to use the reset option on my pc because I was crashing alot, and for some reason system refresh and system restore failed, and reset was my only option. Now, it worked, and i have since discovered the cause of my previous crashes (drivers), but I wanted to know if the reset had fixed the issue of refresh not working...well now when i try to refresh, it says my os drive is locked, and if i try to reset it says i'm missing a required partition...my pc is running fine since i sorted out my drivers, but i do not like the fact that my recovery options are not functioning, as i may have to use them in the future.
Any ideas on how i can get them to work would be greatly appreciated =)
some random, possibly helpful, info:
8.1 is original os on pc, it was not upgraded from another version
pc has 2 hard drives, 1 SSD with the OS and 1 HDD for storage
drives/volumes are not read only
user files such as Videos, Music etc along with desktop were stored on HDD before reset (still are)
before resetting, Drive letter assignments were C: for SSD D: for optical and E: for HDD, after resetting D: was HDD and E: was optical (suspect the missing partition has something to do with this reassigning of drive letters)
When I performed the reset I only applied it to the SSD, not the HDD
One side question; I built the pc myself, i have a win 8.1 install disc, but I got an OEM key, does this mean i cannot do a clean windows install because i already used my key?
Any ideas on how i can get them to work would be greatly appreciated =)
some random, possibly helpful, info:
8.1 is original os on pc, it was not upgraded from another version
pc has 2 hard drives, 1 SSD with the OS and 1 HDD for storage
drives/volumes are not read only
user files such as Videos, Music etc along with desktop were stored on HDD before reset (still are)
before resetting, Drive letter assignments were C: for SSD D: for optical and E: for HDD, after resetting D: was HDD and E: was optical (suspect the missing partition has something to do with this reassigning of drive letters)
When I performed the reset I only applied it to the SSD, not the HDD
One side question; I built the pc myself, i have a win 8.1 install disc, but I got an OEM key, does this mean i cannot do a clean windows install because i already used my key?
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 8.1 pro x64
- CPU
- i7
- Motherboard
- gigabyte gaming 5 z97
- Memory
- 16gb