My Windows 8.1 Encore tablet lost it's boot partition again...?

Hi
This is kind of annoying now because for the second time in 2 years my tablet has decided to lose the boot.ini and will not boot at all. The last time this happened Toshiba had to change the board which took nearly a month... So it's back to PC World then, I shall rephrase that. It's back to Currys PC World Mega Store. It's a good job that I took out extended warranty. If I knew what I was going encounter so many problems with this tablet I would have never bought one. I cannot believe this has happened again. I have got a gut feeling when this came back from Toshiba, and I am going out on a limb here mind. I think they created a recovery partition but forgot to put anything on the recovery partition...?
I have tried a restore, which is locked with BitLocker recovery website and logged into my account and got the recovery key and then entered the laborious long recovery key and it does not work either… So it looks as though I am going to have to return this back to Toshiba again. I haven’t done anything, I just turned it one and there was a message at the bottom of the screen BitLocker recovery and it comes up to enter the recovery key which I have and nothing. No system restore either which is odd because I know there are system recovery files on the tablet. Okay granted they are on a SD Memory card but nevertheless it should still work and nothing. This has to be one of the worst tablets that I have ever bought and to be honest with you. It’ll be the last as well. I will never buy a Toshiba laptop, notebook or tablet again. How can yesterday it was fine and then the following day it loses the doot.ini file… unable to recover I think I shall go to PC World and get this fixed and then just sell it… and count my loses.
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[RESOLVED]
This has been resolved so this topic can now be closed. I forgot when I received this back from Toshiba when they had to replace the board, I made a backup of the original Recovery partition on my Linux server and completely forgot about it. Easily done. I have restored the tablet back to factory settings and all working fine now.
Although, I might add... The Toshiba Encore is one of the worst tablets that I have ever experienced for performing system recovery back to factory settings. It took 5 attempts until I was successful. I have read topics on other forums where one guy took 10 failed attempts to recover his Windows 8 tablet. It kept going around and round in a look unlock with SecureBoot (which incidentally slowed down boot time, therefore I turned this off because it was annoying me)
Reimaging should be straightforward… not a headache where we are thrown into a look around and round until it finally lets you refresh your tablet.

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