All of these devices boot on everyone of my computers except my surface.I have tried disabling secure boot keys in the BIOS and I have tried booting via Windows 8 advances options and by holding down the bottom volume rocker at start up. I want to reformat my Surface Book through USB boot.
Surface is stuck at windows logo with notification that I disabled secured boot.Any ideas? Edit2: It's not solved. Maybe try a different flash drive?I set up the Book to boot through USB only. When in the UEFI menu, do you see a disk drive icon upper right with a line or X Here you are, attempting to install Windows, Ubuntu, or OSX on your Surface Pro 1, 2, or 3, wondering how to go about getting your device to boot from a USB drive. Discuss the workings and policies of this site Press and hold volume down button. Can a Book owner try to do a USB boot? If this answers your question, please let our Community know by marking this post as an answer. the Surface device won't let you proceed with the reimaging process. Tap and hold or right-click on the USB drive and choose FormatSelect FAT32 as the file system and enter a Volume label to name the USB drive, such as RECOVERY, and then tap or click StartTap or click OK to erase the contents of the USB driveOn your Surface or PC, open recovery image that you downloaded by double-clicking it or right click then select Extract and then Extract all.Select the USB drive you formatted earlier for the location and click Extract.When the Surface logo appears, release the volume-down (-) rockerSurface will start the recovery software on the USB recovery driveWhen prompted, choose your language options and keyboard layoutSelect Recover from a Drive. Surface Book, Surface Book 2, and Surface Book 3; Surface Laptop (1st Gen), Surface Laptop 2, Surface Laptop 3; Surface Go, Surface Go 2 ; To change the Surface boot configuration: Select Boot configuration. I did set up the USB with window 10 boot up. Google didn't help much. None of it works.UEFI based systems such as the Surface Pro or other UEFI systems Any other version window 10 will work. Google didn't help much. Methods to Boot Surface Pro from USB Drive.
We're sorry to know that your Surface device is not booting up to Windows anymore.How to Download, Create and Use a USB recovery driveYou'll need a PC running Windows 7 or later or Surface Device and a USB-C flashdrive. But I had use the same ISO,install it the same way, on my desktops and it works. If it's really not going through, then we highly recommend toThanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.I all the mentioned method but it prompt me "Reset this PC" There is a problem resetting your PC. I did set up the USB with window 10 boot up. Thanks. It wouldn't load windows 10 or boot back to the USB partitioning tool
Surface won’t boot from ssd. Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us No worries. I'm not sure if these steps are necessary but I did them before I fixed it. So, what you need to do is change the BIOS settings so that your computer accepts USB boot.
Step 4: Press and release the power button on the top of Surface Pro 3. Sorry for silly questions, but I have to cover all bases.No. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Old cables or hubs without the additional 3.0 pins will force the drive back into 2.0 mode, making it bootable. I did set up the USB with window 10 boot up. Step 1: Power off (turn off) your Surface. It didn't recover from the USB. I disabled secure boot in the UEFI so it should work.Yes I used a 64 bit windows 7 recovery disk, 32 bit Windows vista OS and even a windows 98 ms-dos boot disk!I'm going through the same issues / working on the same resolution. This should boot you to a recovery menu from your SSD on your Surface, but this is when I finally got it to boot from USB. just want to know if you can get pass the Surface UEFI screen.And you got the ISO from the official Microsoft website? So far your solution is getting me farther than I was getting on my own using YUMI for a USB boot! I can confirm that with the Surface Book 1, some USB 3.0 drives won't boot unless they're in USB 2.0 mode.
I've even managed to use a Note, the ports are USB 3.0 capable, but there seems to be a bug preventing certain drives from booting, possible a firmware bug.To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Learn more about Stack Overflow the company To change the Boot order to USB in Surface Book 2. Edit: it's been solved. and reinstall
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I disabled every other boot. No changes were made.Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.Hi, after overnight update I got classic boot error:“Your PC/Device needs to be repaired. Google didn't help much.Edit2: It's not solved. This site uses cookies for analytics, personalized content and ads. Anybody can answer In UEFI I pick boot configuration to start from USB device. Enterprise version take out a lot of the functions. Microsoft Agent Any insight would be great. The USB iso boots when it's any other version besides the enterprise one.You can't install enterprise version of window 10 on surface book. For most Surface models. No worries.