1) First thing is make a recovery disk! Have a USB memory stick, SDcard, etc ready. Plug it into your box and make sure it is recognized and you can see it. It needs to be 8GB at a minimum!
Go into control panel and click on recovery.
On this menu click on Create a recovery drive and follow the instructions. Also allow it to backup your recovery partition.
You can now use this to fully re-image the NAND disk should it ever crash.
2) Do windows update until it is completely done! You may have to run windows update several times to get them all.
3) Now do a System Image backup. This is different than the recovery disk as it backs up all the updates you just did above. You cannot use the same USB stick you used to make a recovery disk. This is because image backup requires a NTFS formatted stick.
To open System Image Backup
Open control panel and click on File History.
In the lower right is system image backup
4) Get your CD key! This is NOT your Product ID but is in fact the CD key used to install Windows 8.1.
If you ever want to hack around and install Win 8.1 fresh from downloaded CD or image, you will need your official CD key that is used to activate windows.
Download this ZIP. Unzip it and run the .exe. I will give you your install CD keys.
No worries there is no virus here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9B...ew?usp=sharing
That's it for now!
Enjoy.
Bob
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