I'm being asked to reinstall Windows 8, Windows 8,1, and all my applications for the third time on an XPS 8700 I got in November. The reason I am told my image is bad is because the system will not install the version of Dell Backup and Recovery Dell created to work with Windows 8.1. The evidence is that the patch worked on another system. I'm sure it did, but that's not the same as knowing exactly what's wrong with my system. Is there a way to see if an image is good without having to throw hours and hours and hours of time at it (only to possibly find out that wasn't the problem after all).
I use Windows 8.1, so there's no refreshing of the OS. I have a bootable backup I can use, but doing that is still going to cost me a lot of time to get the system up to date, and supposededly it won't work because it was made from a bad image.
