Cannot update my nokia lumia 1020 fully...

Hello all,
I have contacted Nokia recently and all they suggest is a factory reset,but firstly the only computer I have is a WINXP computer(which is not supported for backup) and secondly,I don't want to spend hours(If I could backup) reloading stuff back on the phone for an update issue!
Hope you guys can help..Here is my scenerio...Completely NOT my fault
I have two phones on my account,BOTH are the same exact phone models,which are Nokia Lumia 1020's. 
When the update FIRST came out for Cyan a while back,I was one of those ones (foolishly now I might add)to jump right on the update and download it when it first became available(within two days)...It went through and installed successfully,phone came on..no problem or so I thought...However,I was missing the "Cortana" feature on the phone! Everything else was there except for "Cortana"...It wasn't listed under the "applications" either. 
Now this is where it gets funky. My wife who has the other SAME model phone decided to WAIT to update her phone until 3 days ago. Guess what? It went through with no issues as mine had,but she now HAS Cortana installed on her phone!!!
The only difference in the settings for phone information between my phone and her phone is the "Hardware Revision number" which for me is 3.3.0.2.    Hers is 3.3.0.3.
Everything else including the OS version,firmware,etc..etc...is exactly the same on both phones. 
I contacted Nokia and the only thing they could tell me was to check my date and time and region on the phone,which was already of course set correctly to US and the proper time zone and date.
If I go in and try and run the "check for updates" now on my phone,it tells me that there are no updates available,and my phone is up to date. 
GRRRRR!
Now they recommend a factory reset and a "Tool" on their website which will erase all data on the phone and put a spanking new OS reinstall on my phone,but it will wipe out all my contents. Like I said before,I cannot backup because of my XP system which is not supported. Why should I have to format anyway,since this was SUPPOSED to be a simple OS upgrade which should not force me to do this. If they tested it extensively before they shot it out to the public when they first released it,they would have seen that "Cortana" was missing. Evidently they have fixed that bug,but I am still upset because I basically want Nokia to send me (or to email me)a link to download a executable file to my phone that could reinstall the OS without going through this factory reset crap. They won't do anything like this...This is their muckup,releasing a incomplete update.How was I supposed to know that the update they released for download at that time was incomplete?  Since this is clearly their issue,I believe they should help me resolve it by "pushing" a force reinstall on my particular phone without having to go through an unnecessary factory reset,and then the major pain of putting everything back on the phone(and that's if I had the proper computer in the first place!)  I know Nokia could do this if they wanted to. All they need is the hardcore details on my phone. 
I'm not very happy with Nokia service on this,and thought they would help me to a greater extent than this.  I guess my only other option is to "WAIT" for them to put out another update for the phone,and then try and install that. But who knows when that is going to be? I can't enjoy a nice feature on the phone for all this time,but my wife can. This sucks. After this fiasco,You can bet I'm surely not going to download it immediately after release as I may run into the same problem and bugs are still in it. 
Anyone with any ideas/suggestions/support?  I'd love to hear from ya,thanks to all for reading. 
Mike

Hi, Sequenzzer. Welcome to our community. We completely understand where you're coming from. Can you try visiting this link: Nokia Lumia 1020 - Lumia system apps are missing and try the fixes listed? Let us know the outcome. 

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