MSI GE60 2OE, upgraded to windows 8.1, now back at 8.0

Bought my son a laptop and added all the games and what not that he likes, as well I updated the OS to Windows 8.1. All of this went well, and the laptop worked fine, but I ran in to an issue that I just couldn't live with.
At home I have a WHS2011 server, after upgrading the laptop to Windows 8.1, it modified the EFI and system reserve partitions, actually moving one of them from the front of the drive, to in between the C and D drive. Disk Management shows 100% free space in these partitions. Anyways, the issue is that I could no longer do a BMR backup to the server, it was telling me my drive was to full (meaning those hidden partitions were too full. There is a lot of info on the net about this and how to correct it, but to do so was a little different for my situation considering it had move one to the back of the drive, more or less, and they showed 100% free space.
I decided to give a try, the steps in the Windows 8.1 FAQ that tell how to get back to windows 8 without a full system restore or use the Restoration disks that I had created originally. You have to swipe the right side, select change system settings, update/recover windows, and then choose a recovery option. I chose to do the refresh, which from my research was something that tried to fix issues, but wasn't anything major, it isn't supposed to affect your personal files. However, MSI says this will get it back to Windows 8.0. I did this this morning and it seems to have worked, at least to a point to where I can now do my BMR backup to my server.
It didn't move the hidden partitions back to where they were, but now WHS2011 will do a backup with everything selected instead of just drives C and D. It reinstalled ALL of the bloatware that I had removed, added everything back to the desktop, and left everything I had added as well. Games that were installed on the D drive were still there and still fully functional. Steam and the games it downloaded to the C drive were gone. The windows.old directory that the upgrade to 8.1 created was still there on the C drive and a directory that appears to be remnants of Windows 8.1 upgrade appear to be there as well.
This will all be easy enough to clean up, I'm just happy that my server is now happy with my son's new laptop. Also, under computer properties, it does show windows 8, and WEI is available, which was done away with in 8.1.

Quote from: Mike1793 on 20-January-14, 01:09:25
nvm problem solved =D
Same prob here. I installed win8.1 and the light is orange always. How did u solve this?

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