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- Creating and using a USB recovery drive for Surface

 

Select your Surface model and it will jump to the next dialog. Click on "Download" button and begin to download recovery image for your Surface.

It will take you about 3 hours to download the recovery image file, make sure you have enough time, and wait for it patiently. Tips: Your USB will be formatted, and everything on it will be erased. Make sure no important data on it, if have, move it to other place. Double click on the recovery image zip file, and decompress the recovery image on the USB drive. With the USB recovery drive created for your Surface, you can reset your Surface to factory settings when you get problems on it.

You can create a USB recovery drive on your Surface, if there is nothing wrong on your Surface, and the recovery partition hasn't been removed from your Surface. Step 4: Swipe in from the right side of your Surface screen, tap on "Search". On the search box enter: recovery. If possible, we recommend you use a USB 3. Type recovery in the Search box and select the Recovery Drive or Create a recovery drive app from the top result. Then click on Yes in the User Account Control window to confirm the operation.

In the pop-up window, make sure you select the checkbox next to Back up system files to the recovery drive and click on Next. Wait for the tool to detect your USB drive automatically. Step 5. When the Surface Pro recovery image is created, click on Finish.

Step 6. Step 7. Then wait for the copying process to complete. Once done, make sure you Safely eject the USB drive from the taskbar. Sometimes you may need to reset or restore your Surface to the factory settings when the system is not working properly.

How to reset the Surface using the USB recovery drive? Here are detailed steps:. Warning: Resetting the Surface will delete all personal files, and remove all apps and settings.

Before you start, make sure you have backed up the product keys, and installation files of your desktop apps like Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project , and Visio so that you can reinstall them after the reset. Make sure that your Surface is turned off and the USB recovery drive is inserted into your machine properly. Press and hold the volume-down button at the side of your Surface while you press and release the Power button.

Once the Surface or Microsoft logo appears, release the volume-down button. Select the Language and Keyboard layout that you want when prompted. In the Choose an option , select Troubleshoot and select Recover from a drive. If you are asked for a recovery key, select the Skip this drive at the bottom of the screen. You can select either Just remove my files or Fully clean the drive. The former option will refresh but keep your PC, while the latter will recycle your Surface and may take hours to complete.

Click on Recover , then your Surface will restart and display the Surface logo during the resetting process. After reading the above information, I believe that lots of users can make a Surface Pro 4 recovery image successfully.

The amount of disk space you can free up varies by device. Important: If you delete the recovery information from your Surface after you create the USB recovery drive, be sure to keep the USB recovery drive in a safe place.

A recovery image will no longer be stored on your Surface, and you'll need your USB recovery drive if you ever need to refresh or reset your Surface. Surface comes with a built-in tool to create a USB recovery drive. To create a recovery drive, you'll need an external USB drive formatted to FAT32, with enough available storage space for all your recovery data.

Note: You can also download the recovery files from the Surface website. For more info, see Download a recovery image for your Surface.

Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and tap Search. If you're using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and click Search. In the search box, enter recovery , and in the search results, tap or click Recovery , and tap or click Create a recovery drive. In the User Account Control dialog box, tap or click Yes. Tap or click Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive , and tap or click Next.

Make sure to transfer any important data from your USB drive to another storage device before using it to create a Surface USB recovery drive. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and tap or click Search. The recovery image and recovery tools will be copied to your USB drive. Your Surface must stay awake during the copy process, which will take 10 to 15 minutes. Tap or click Finish if you want to keep the recovery tools on your Surface. Tap or click Delete the recovery partition if you want to remove the recovery tools from Surface and free up disk space.

To confirm, tap or click Delete , and when removal is complete, tap or click Finish. Select J ust remove my files or Fully clean the drive. Restore or reset Surface Pro or Surface 3. Related topics. Surface recovery topics. Surface Devices Surface More Windows 11 Windows 10 Windows 8. Note: This video is available in English only.

Copying or moving this information to a USB drive has two advantages: Recovery. The next screen will indicate how much storage space is available on your USB drive. Tap or click Cancel to close the recovery drive tool.

Connect the USB drive to your computer. Connect the power supply to your Surface and plug into an electrical outlet. Tap or click the USB drive you want to use, and tap or click Next. Tap or click Create. After the recovery tools are copied, do one of the following: Tap or click Finish if you want to keep the recovery tools on your Surface.

Remove your USB drive from Surface and keep it in a safe place. Start your Surface using the recovery drive and follow these steps: Choose the language.

Choose your keyboard layout. From the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot. From the Troubleshoot screen, select Reset your PC. Select Yes, repartition the drives.