My Frustrating and Complicated Experience with Fixing the Repair Error (Part 2)

My laptop. Courtesy of Microsoft Corporation

Okay, now for part 2. If you missed part 1, well click here.

As I said, my McAfee subscription has expired. Now my McAfee subscription expired less than a week before Christmas. I was pressured into renewing it that I even almost order it (that transaction obviously didn't get through, even though my billing information is correct). Then it said that McAfee will continue to protect my laptop after my subscription expired....until about January 12 or January 11. Really McAfee, do I HAVE to pay a high price of it? It's a risky situation.

In other ways, I did download the Windows 8 install setup, but here's a problem: you have to put in a product key, which I CAN'T FIND! There was no sticker on the back of my laptop, so I have to find more help online. The answer is this: You can't really find your product key, it's injected into the laptop. WOW WOW WOWWY! So I try to find a product key through product key finder programs with no success.

My Frustrating and Complicated Experience with Fixing the Repair Error (Part 1)

I would take like a minute to blog the following, okay.

Less than two weeks ago, I was going to do a system restore. But then, it was unsuccessful. I tried to do it again, but it still no results. I did tried fixing the system volumes, but it obviously doesn't work; It only works when you have a system volume error. I had a different error instead as it doesn't involve with volumes. It involves with data corruption.

The next thing is that I tried to do a windows diagnosis test, like what the Microsoft help forum said. And despite having a system restore error, the Windows Diagnosis Test said that my laptop doesn't have an errors. So I tried to do a system restore again...several times; It still having the same error. I tried Disk Checking Error and that said it doesn't have any errors.

But despite all of that, as I trying several ways to restore, I still found that the system can't restore and, in fact, would not restore at all. First of all, I didn't think it would have been a very frustration and complicated experience...if the Dell Drivers and Utilities CD, which I apparently only have since there's believed to be no operating system installation disc that came with it at the time, contain the entire reinstallation of the laptop. Nope, it was about: what it says on the disc. Only drivers and utilities. Nothing else. There was no option to reinstall the C drive, which the laptop uses.