Hi all,
I did a clean install of Windows 8.1 basic on my new device, as I'm not a big fan of bloatware etc. Unfortunately I can't use the existing product key to activate the clean Windows installation, so I need to restore to factory settings using the recovery partition. Here's where the problems arise.
The recovery partition is present on the hard drive, but I don't think Windows knows where. Here's the output from reagentc /info via the command line:
As you can see "Recovery image location" is empty and "Recovery image index" is 0. I think I need to tell Windows where the recovery partition etc. is, but I'm not sure how.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
I did a clean install of Windows 8.1 basic on my new device, as I'm not a big fan of bloatware etc. Unfortunately I can't use the existing product key to activate the clean Windows installation, so I need to restore to factory settings using the recovery partition. Here's where the problems arise.
The recovery partition is present on the hard drive, but I don't think Windows knows where. Here's the output from reagentc /info via the command line:
As you can see "Recovery image location" is empty and "Recovery image index" is 0. I think I need to tell Windows where the recovery partition etc. is, but I'm not sure how.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- WIndows 8.1