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I got my hands on a Samsung XE700T1A, one of the ones handed out at one of the early Windows 8 BUILD conferences. It's been upgraded from Windows 7 and recovered from an image at some point, so there are three Windows folders on the 64GB SSD and almost no room left. I'd like to do a fresh install of Windows 8.1 but no matter how many guides I follow, it never works for me.

List of tutorials I've followed, unsuccessfully

http://patrickvhines.blogspot.ie/2011/10/installing-windows-8-developer-preview.html http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/samsung/55905-how-install-windows-7-ativ-smart-pc-pro-700t.html http://rockystepbystep.blogspot.ie/2012/07/installing-clean-windows-8-on-samsung.html http://www.samsung.com/global/windowspreview/data/1_Using_the_Samsung_Series_7_Slate_Windows_8_Consumer_Preview.pdf

And a bunch of others. I can't access the BIOS by any of the suggested methods. I have already updated the firmware so that might be the reason.

The only screen I can ever get to is the Recover screen.

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Is there a way to reinstall Windows 8 from here? If I hold down "volume -" when powering up, I can get to this screen.

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Kingston Data Traveller is my 16gb NTFS formatted bootable USB drive with Windows 8. Usually, the only option here is SAMSUNG MZMPA064HMDR-0. which is the SSD itself. Unfortunately when I select the Kingston it simply reboots back into the standard windows install again.

I need to access the BIOS, but how?

Hennes
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You should be able to install Windows 8 or 8.1 with a UEFI-bootable pendrive:

  1. Format it to FAT32.
  2. Copy all files from a Windows ISO to the pendrive.

This will make the pendrive bootable for UEFI. Then you can choose to reboot from pendrive. (this option is visible on the last photo)

(I'm putting it here as a real answer, previously suggested in comments)

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