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I went and read the post that you linked to and figured out what I was doing wrong. Thanks for all the help! I'm now on a fresh install of windows 8.1!

I used the quoted link to create the installation media on a thumb drive. I never got an option to pick where I wanted to install Windows. I opened up the file on the thumb drive and browsed to the setup.exe and windows basically did everything on its own. The only choices I got were the Windows...

Okay, so I went ahead and used the link you gave me, used a thumb drive and did the clean install of windows 8.1.. What is weird now is that I only have 40gb free on a 500gb hard drive. I now also have 9 partitions. What happened?

The software gives a message that says to make sure you have your product key whey you're ready to install. I know you said it automatically pulls your product key but I have to be sure that it does that because i dont know what my product key is. Any insight?

Okay, thanks again. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks for the link. Is there any downside to doing it this way?

Hello all.. I have the Asus X501A that came with Windows 8 and I upgraded to Windows 8.1 thru the store. I would like to be able to do a clean install of Windows 8 however, my factory reset options no longer work. I am in the same boat as many others that have posted in this thread...

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