Satellite C50-A - upgrading to Win 8.1 bit from Win7

Hi
Wondering, I have the Windows 8.1, upgrade media I got for my Toshiba Satellite C50-A machine. Want to upgrade to Windows 8.1, and got the upgrade DVD, that came with the laptop. So do I just insert the DVD, click set-up, or do I need to go back to factory settings, then insert the DVD, and as a blind it student, will need sighted help.
Any help, tips, tricks from people done this before. I have a 1 TB USB Toshiba external drive, so have backed up everything on to that and added a couple of things today, but backed up all the rest of my stuff, docs, college work, e-mails, my rss feed settings, contacts for outlook 2010, programs, music, TV, movies, favorites, etc. so any advice.
Going to do this tomorrow. as doing a programming course and the instructor is using windows 8.1, and need to develop windows stores and windows phone apps.
Marvin from Adelaide, Australia.

Exact specification of your model is not known to me but I presume you got your machine with Win8.1 recovery disc so if you want to use Win8.1 you must boot your machine with this recovery disc and make clean OS installation.
I don't know if you got your machine with originally preinstalled Win7. If yes create recovery media (DVD or USB) using preinstalled Toshiba recovery disc creator before you start Win8.1 installation.
This created recovery media you can use if you want to have machine with Win7 again.

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