So I just upgraded my Samsung dp700A3d all in one's 5400 stock hard drive to a 500 gb SSD. I'm having so much more trouble than I need to recover windows. Apparently theres loads of BS that goes on with the 8.1 specific upgrade (exactly my luck) and I cannot for the life of me get anything to work. I cleaned the drive before in the bios trying out someone elses advice on the matter and now nothing comes up at all on the boot order screen I'm unsure if that has anything to do with it. But I tried creating a DVD which didn't get past the bios. I've now used my external hard drive and a separate flash drive both done with the "create a recovery drive" prompt done and every time nothing works at all and I get a message when I try to recover in the boot screen saying "A required partition is missing" yet they are both recovery partitions.