Or is it stuck in safe mode?
Here's a video to change that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL_FuoyTC6o
My Asus n53sv has windows 8.1 installed. Originally came with windows 7. Took advantage of the $40 upgrade to windows 8, and i downloaded 8.1 from the windows store. On Wednedsay 1/29 I was playing a game and my PC froze. I cold booted the machine, waited through recovery process except it wouldn't fully boot up. Did another cold boot and then the laptop would boot but not all the way. Now I'm only able to boot in safe mode. I cannot refresh my laptop from my windows 8 install discs. I thought maybe I could boot from an 8.1 iso file on a flash drive but I can't seem to find one. I'm finding a bunch for enterprise version of windows 8.1 but I'm not sure if that'll work. If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it. I would like to not reformat but at this point I don't mind. Not sure if I can do that either.

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