Really appreciate that! Thank you!!
Sorry I would be traveling for a couple of days so wouldn't be able to post the details but in short this is what I had to do:
1) Install 8.1 Enterprise evaluation clean, delete all drives and let 8.1 create all the recovery drives automatically
2) Download 8.1 recovery drive from xandros9 (you probably have this one already)
3) Move the contents of the recovery drive to a USB drive formatted on FAT32
3) Within recovery options, select reset (not from within advanced restart) while the USB is connected to the tablet
4) The tablet will restart and start restoring Windows 8.1 from the recovery. It also recreates the recovery partition with the OS backup
Let me know if the recovery from xandros9 doesn't work (it did for me once, but I'm still using mine), I'll post mine.