My device is Dell Inspiron 3542 with a default windows 8.1 home edition preinstalled.I had tried installing Ubuntu OS and due to less attention from my part, the installation completely erased my windows partition.
I had made a recovery disk on a portable hard drive but owing to carelessness, my cousin wiped out the entire hard drive thinking of it as unnecessary.
I want to restore my PC back to the shipped OS but I do not have a recovery disk nor a manufacturer modified operating system.I tried looking into the support page but it says that recovery image is not available for the specified model of my product.
Is there any way to recover back my old OS and can I request a installation disk from DELL.Please answer the following question.Thanks.