let me into the area to reactivate it . I managed to get Windows 8 back but have lost all my preinstalled and paid for programs as well as medical files to do with me having Ovarian Cancer stage 3-4 . I had made a bootable recovery tool but that doesn't seem to do anything . I m running a Sony Vaio i7 (was 8.1) now 8 .I'm not very well and sure could do with some help . Sony Vaio is supposed to have a partition it saves to but I think it's been wiped but I'm too much of a newbie to understand how what where or why .Medical treatment is expensive else I would take it to a"Wizard" Help anyone pl?