Copy the contents of the Windows DVD to a folder on your C:\ drive. In the example below, the files are copied to C:\Win8.1\
If you do not have a copy of the Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 DVD, you will not be able to follow the steps below, and you'll need to download a Windows 8.1 recovery CD for your PC instead.
[caption id="attachment_2511" align="alignnone" width="300"] The contents of the Windows 8.1 DVD have been copied to C:\Win8.1\[/caption]