I live on my XPS 8500 Desktop, purchased in 2012. It's running Win 8 (standard I assume) and has had issues with file corruptions for years. For this reason, I never attempted an 8.1 upgrade. In the past few days it has been running poorly and I am alarmed.
Innumerable SFC and DISM scans have failed to fix or replace the corrupt and missing files. I've Refreshed many times over the last 5 yrs and always end up with missing and corrupt files. I haven't done another Refresh yet and don't want to attempt a Reset because I believe that there are corrupt files in my Recovery Partition(s).
In recent months I have repeatedly tried to find a Win 8 ISO, hoping to point to it to for the files that the scans can't find. Every Win 8 link that I come across (including the Dell website) takes me to a page for 8.1.
As a retiree on a fixed income, I need to find a way to resolve the issues on my own with minimal expenditure. I have my Product Key. I just can't find Windows 8. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.