This has all the pictures... Good step by step graphic Tutorial.
How to Use Refresh and Reset in Windows 8 to Easily Reinstall Your PC
Sick of formatting? Then learn how to breathe new life into your
machines without formatting using the new Refresh and Reset features
present in Windows 8. ....
Now this works as I have had to perform it once already on mine. Works flawlessly like a charm as expected. I am only recommending this as apparently it seems somehow you went ahead and cold-cokked installed Linux as dual boot with Windows 8. This can lead to a disaster if you were not aware of the new secure boot technologies in Windows 8, and is a real wonder how you possibly could have achieved this - and could have only if you had disabled that, is the only way you could have gotten this far with Linux actually booting on the dual boot machine. Did you disable Windows secure Boot – 8? Then question is who did? It is possible some less than genuine manufacturer has moved to circumvent this and release the Windows PC without protection enabled as a quote convenience to the user – which would leave your brand new latest Windows OS in the stone age as an Windows XP machine without protections offered since then.
I strongly! recommend that you wipe the disk by easily in-place reinstalling Windows 8 and start from scratch! As well I strongly recommend the Resetting as opposed to refreshing, as will guarantee the closest to actually reinstalling Windows from CD/DVD disk. You will be presented with a list of your apps/softwares that were uninstalled when done and ready to go. You can easily reinstall these then. Make sure to FIRST back up any personal files, documents, media files etc you wish to keep and any important Liscense numbers like of softwares or antimalware programs you will need to download and reinstall – must have the product liscense number. Didn't keep a copy? Open them now and write them down to have them.
With Windows 8 back I would then proceed to Tutorials and How Tos of how to officially properly install Linux as a dual boot and very particularly here with Windows 8, as this new procedure has NEVER occurred before. History has been changed. I am strongly recommending this as having used Windows over 10 years on XP, Vista to 8. You know better if you are a veteran. In short, if this was not performed properly (installing dual boot), and since you do not have a Recovery CD, there is a STRONG chance you may corrupt the Windows OS (operating system) beyong being able to even log in and attempt to rinstall it from in-place Refresh or Reset. Without the Recovery CD in other words and you can not log in – you will have no way to reinstall Windows if necessary. It could be possible from that point to attempt to just wipe the disk entirely installing Linux, but you have lost Windows forever – as your preference is a dual boot system.
INSTALL THIS AS EXTRA SAFEGUARD TO ACCESS WINDOWS ( I did, works like a charm)....
How to Make the F8 Key Work for Safe Mode in Windows 8
Booting into safe mode became non-trivial in Windows 8, especially if you were accustomed to the old F8 shortcut. Here is how to get F8 working again.
Note: we aren't necessary recommending that everybody make this change – we are just showing that it is still an option. You can alternatively use some of the new Windows 8 features to fix your computer instead. ....
http://www.howtogeek.com/164001/how-to-make-the-f8-key-work-for-safe-mode-in-windows-8/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=270513
Booting into safe mode became non-trivial in Windows 8, especially if you were accustomed to the old F8 shortcut. Here is how to get F8 working again.
Note: we aren't necessary recommending that everybody make this change – we are just showing that it is still an option. You can alternatively use some of the new Windows 8 features to fix your computer instead. ....
http://www.howtogeek.com/164001/how-to-make-the-f8-key-work-for-safe-mode-in-windows-8/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=270513
(Save this command to a text pad file if you wish to remove, you will see this in tutorial)......
RESET/REMOVE SAFE MODE - COMMAND PROMPT
bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy standard
gerald philly pa usa
From: James Jolin
Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 2:00 PM
To: Linux Newbies
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Windows 8 and Linux install
I recently got a Lenovo G580 laptop...nice ...no touch screen. I then proceeded to install Linux Mint 13 "alongside windows." Install went about a nice as possible. I then rebooted as usual and the grub menu showed up as usual. Selected Linux Mint and that went ok, too. Everything worked liked a charm....you know by now something is coming. I then decided to shutdown and when I got the grub menu and selected Windows and I got an error message about configuration error....wanted me to get the installation disk and select "repair." Unfortunetly there were not any...they are on a partition on the hard drive. So I brought up the bios setup and looked at the drives....legacy vs something that begins with "e" (default). So I turned the setup to legacy last (I think) and got
windows to show up. That's the way it stands now. If you need details let me know.
windows to show up. That's the way it stands now. If you need details let me know.
Jim
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