I have the Windows 8.1 installer ISO contents on a USB flash drive, and I would like to use it to refresh my Windows 8.1 installation which has become corrupted. How can I do this? Whenever I go to the advanced boot option, all it does it prompt with a message asking me to insert either my install CD or recovery media.
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Your flash drive is your installation media. I assume the installation is corrupt which means its not bootable? – Ramhound Feb 12 '14 at 01:19
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@Ramhound When I try to run the `setup.exe` file just to see if it works, it opens and then says that it failed to validate the product key. I do not want to do a fresh install, just a recovery, but the recovery is not working. – DaveTheMinion Feb 12 '14 at 01:20
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Why don't you just use the DISM and sfc /scannow commands? – Ramhound Feb 12 '14 at 01:24
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@Ramhound I wanted to do it, but it didn't fix the problem, the problem being BitLocker is corrupt. – DaveTheMinion Feb 12 '14 at 01:35
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If neither command detected any corruption then your installation isn't corrupt. – Ramhound Feb 12 '14 at 02:33
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@Ramhound The problem has been solved. For some reason the bootable flash drive that I made from the ISO didn't finish successfully the first time around, and as a result it wasn't recognizing it as a valid installer drive. I tried again, and it worked. I was able to refresh my computer. Now all that I have left to do is reinstall of my programs (of which there are millions), restore my backed up appdata folder, and I will be good to go! – DaveTheMinion Feb 12 '14 at 11:44
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