![]() ![]() Spent hours creating a new recovery USB (trying to) only to learn the 8 GB USB would not accept the data. Scott, Maybe I should use “reply” below… THANK YOU for responding I’m certain you know the frustration of tech dummies like me… who know just enough to be dangerous!!! I’m writing from my SURFACE so by some small miracle I was successful in “refreshing” or “restoring” or “renewing” OR “resetting” or WHATEVER!!! FYI I HAD created a recovery disk – which when I put in the USB and attempted to boot from it, nothing happened. When it finally finishes, you will get the License Terms screen followed by the rest of the tablet setup steps.It’s probably time to wash the dishes or mow the lawn or something anyway. It will take a while, so feel free to find something else to do for a while.At this point the Windows 8.1 upgrade will continue without needing to restore the entire tablet from scratch.Now click “Continue” to boot into Windows RT 8.1.A (When prompted for options to add to boot list). ![]() When the command prompt opens type the following and press enter after each.If you get a message about needing to enter your encryption key, see the end of my blog post here:.(this step removed, it never worked anyway).Scroll tediously through the list to find your language and select it (who designed this UI!?!?!?).Wait until the Keyboard Language prompt appears.When the “Surface” logo appears, you can release the volume button.While pressing the “volume down” button (-) press the power button (keep holding the volume button).Insert the USB key in the side of your Surface.You just need to be able to format the USB drive as FAT32 and extract. You could probably even do it on a Linux machine. NOTE: You can create a USB recovery drive using ANY Windows computer running XP or above. If you don’t have one, no problem, you can create one from another Windows computer ( ) (UPDATE: I have now received multiple confirmations that this works, and no data is lost!)įirst you will need to create a bootable USB recovery drive. The Boot Configuration Data file is missing some required informationĪlthough it takes a while, and might be a bit tricky, it does seem to be fairly easy to recover from. It took a long time but I just let it run overnight and it was all good the next morning. If you happen to be an enterprise/business that decided to buy several of them (does such a entity exist?) then it would appear you are about to have a ton of downloads happening unless you boost your proxy cache size.Īnd now for todays story. Both need to download the update, so that’s 2x the several GB needed. It will complete the 8.1 upgrade and then the extra steps are to recreate the on-device recovery volume with the 8.0 image which only applies if you rollback sometime in the future.įirst point – How annoying is it that you can only update Windows RT from the App Store, although probably not a drama if you only have one tablet. Some news sites are saying the MS image will revert you to 8.0, it does not. It uses the same steps to complete the upgrade with the last part being to recreate the full recovery volume. Microsoft have now released the Full Recovery Image for WinRT (3.7GB download). You can get it here: I have started a new post about this issue here: UPDATE 19 August 2014 regarding KB14-045 bluescreens:Īlthough I don’t have a fix, there seems to be a lot of people finding this post while searching about the recent bluescreen issue caused by Microsoft Updates KB14-045. MSSQL user can’t connect until password change.WSUS SUP causes high CPU and clients fail updates scan.ConfigMgr Client missing Health Eval Task.Microsoft Windows Servicing Stack Updates (SSU) – A Rant.Although, if you install something else than Windows 8 or 10, expect the keyboard cover, digitize pen, and touch screen not work or not work properly due to lack for proper drivers. You install any OS you want, you are free. Although, don't expect to use Chrome (as such system usually have 1GB of RAM, and a slow Atom CPU), but Firefox might work if you are patient for it to start, and limit yourself with addons. I mean the specs sucks, of course, but at least you have a full Windows. You do have 150-200$ Windows 10 powered tablets. So, even if you could, it would be annoying to use. Most likely the keyboard cover won't work, and same for the touch screen, to start with. You can, maybe jailbreak it with lots of research and work, and be able to install a Linux distro, but seeing how unpopular the device is (including the Surface 2), I don't think you'll have a good base community that will allow you to have a Linux based OS run properly and have everything from the device working. The popular suggestion is to use Remote Desktop. ![]()
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