Refresh Windows 8
My suggestion for a new machine with Windows 8 OS (or any OS).
Before anything else, follow the instructions to create refresh disk(s) (in my manufacturer's cas it was 6 DVD's).
With this done, run the recovery to "back to as shipped from the manufacturer"
You are losing nothing and you are taking this opportunity, while under warrnaty to verify that the recovery works, with no real impact (other than time).
In my case running recovery from the revcovery partition, from the disks I created, and from the disks the manufacturer sent me all FAILED every attempt.
It tuned out that there was a known hardware problem (wireless card) that was fixed by the manufacturer. The recovery process then worked.
Again, IMHO it's better to find out right at the start on a machine with none of your applications and or data and while it is under warranty.
Differetn story of course when installing Windows 8 on a Windows 7 system...
