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I have a dell XPS12 which was purchased last year, originally ran windows 8 now upgraded to 8.1.  Since then, I've been having some problems with my camera and screen rotation, so decided on a factory reset.  All methods of factory reset have been unsuccessful:

- the windows method - (change pc settings - update and recovery - recovery - erase everything and reinstall windows) - starts working, restarts the computer and gives me an error that it was unable to reinstall windows.  theres an option to find solutions, but that leads nowhere.

 

- the Dell method - created a factory rescue disc on my USB drive, and booted from it (using f12) - the computer starts booting, looks like it's "thinking' then goes back to my regular desktop and doesn't even bring up an error.

I have tried this with the microsoft support team and they are stumped as I am.  Looking at my partitions, I can see that I have 7 (!!) different partitions, as follows:

- regular C drive

- healthy primary partition - 8gb
- healthy recovery partition - 9.25 gb
- healthy recovery partition - 350mb
- healthy recovery partition - 490 mb
- healthy OEM partition- 40mb
- healthy EFI system partition - 500mb
and all of them are seemingly empty (100% free).
Has anyone had similar problems? any fixes? solutions? I wish i had a windows key, but it came preinstalled and they don't supply you with that info any more...
Thanks

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