Omfg!! You are a life saver!! I've been all over the net frantically looking for an option to recover my deleted system. I literally tried everything, and never did I think about holding volume down and power
Thank you sir! Good Tutorial. One more thing to remember, if you have a micro sd card installed, take it out or you get an error trying to boot from the usb flash dive.
After wanting to get rid of Windows 10 and go back to 8/8.1, all the information on the internet was useless until I was lead back here (I had seen this before, but forgotten the details). Only when I followed your instructions did I get anywhere at all. Windows 8 in on and updating. You are my hero ;-)
You are 1000 times more useful than Surface support after 2 hours of chatting they gave me no solution and all that I needed to do was push the volume button plus the power .... Isn't that incredible..... Microsoft should fire their support people and pay you lots of money for your easy to follow support .... Thank you very, very much!!!
Download and create a USB recovery drive from another PC To download the recovery drive, you’ll need: - A USB drive with more than 4GB storage capacity. - A PC running Windows 7 or later. Here’s how to create the recovery drive: 1) Download the recovery drive files. a) Go to download.microsoft.com b) In the Search box enter Surface RT Recovery and the press Enter. c) Tap or click on Surface RT Recovery in the search results and follow the instructions on the screen to download. 2) When the download is complete, create the Surface USB recovery drive. a) Insert your USB drive into the USB port of your PC. b) From the desktop, open File Explorer. c) Tap and Hold or right-click on the USB drive and choose Format. d) Select FAT32 as the file system and enter a Volume label to name the USB drive, such as RECOVERY, and then tap or click Start. e) Tap or click OK to erase the contents of the USB drive. f) Tap or click OK when the format is complete. g) Copy the contents of the recovery image you downloaded to the USB flash drive.
I followed your steps and I keep getting an error that says "Insert your Windows installation or recovery media to continue". I have copied my recovery partition to the USB flash drive but still get that error. Any ideas how to procedd?
Yes i need this please to be able to open it again but when i press the power and volume up buttons together it doesn’t show me like the video it show me the other screen in the video which i commented on it Please can you help me ?
My Surface does not accept the connected USB drive as boot device, although there is a bootable Windows 10 and a Windows 8.0 recovery system on it. The USB drives LED flashes, signaling activity, but it still boots into an error message saying that windows installation isn't complete and has to restart. Microsoft has no intention in helping.
Hi I have a quick question, when I press the power up button while holding the lower volume and the logo appears and I release the lower volume button surface doesn't load up the usb boot file. Any ideas why not?
My process was set to make a clena install, and it never passes 2%. After around 2 or three hours it just return to a blue screen and says thre was an error rtesetting the device. I reviewed in console that there is no partitions at this moment. Was it the end of the tablet? it is a surface pro
how long does it take to switch from logo page to language options page? mine seems to be stuck for very long at the logo after i release the volume down button!
Trying to reinstall Win 10 home on a computer ruined by a failed Win 11 upgrade on Surface Book 2. I don't understand why what I see being different. I made a bootable Surface Recovery USB. I booted the computer by holding down vol down and power buttons. I did see the selections for language and keyboard. The option I see on the Surface Book 2 are different and when I go to Troubleshoot> Advanced, it displays a blank list of devices I can recover from, prompts for installing drivers, I don't even know which one I would choose and tried all usb*.inf files and no luck. Now it is asking me to connect to a network folder.
I have everything I need. Including the Bootable flash drive that I downloaded from Microsoft's website for my Surface Pro 2. Although I managed to accidentally cleaned what I think was Drive C, the drive that had the Operating System on. Following the steps to boot from the flash drive carefully... I had to hold Volume Down and Power, same steps that you completed in the video. But my USB Drive is not booting. I receive an endless loop between the UEIFI menu ( If that's how you spell it ) and the Surface Logo with no OS to boot from. Any Solutions to get the USB to boot?
i followed all your steps from previous video, but when i held Volume down + power (rlease power, and keep holding volume down) the surface would boot normally. Its like my USB never exsisted. But when i plug in my micro SD card, there would be a boot error. Do you know anything to help me on this issue?! I have a 64gb version and 8gb of extra space is really precious!
I did all those steps, but it after setting back ground color and renaming screen the table went in to sleep mode , i quick got the screen be on , but this time it went to user name and pass word screen without setting up a email and password . it only has other User access. Please help me reset over again... Thanks
Hi can you send me one flash drive for my windows surface 2. My surface need to be Repair and but is not responding at all. It just says update from USB back up drive. The reason I lost my flash drive. Please reply...
I have the Surface Pro 3 with Windows 8.1 Pro. (I7. 512 GB, 64 Bit, 8.00 GB Ram). Been having issues that I can't seem to fix and would like to restore but the idea of downloading all my software again is less than appealing. Is there any possible way to save software download files and transfer back to my system in working condition once the restore is complete? Or is there a way to at least save the activation codes so I won't have to contact the manufacturer for a new code? HELP!
well...my battery went down in the middle of the process and now it wont start.. but i still have tehe usb3 with the security copy.. what next steps now..?? :(
my pro surface 3 begins with the red home screen and go straight to the boot screen, and so it is what would be the solution to this problem help me please
Mine won't boot recovery mode. My USB is 16GB and formatted to FAT32, I have the correct files as per serial number from the MS website. I carefully follow the press volume down and power and only release volume down once the Surface splash screen appears for a few seconds. It just will not boot... I even leave it for 20 minutes and nothing, I dont even think it attempts to read the USB.
+Ant Man I have exactly the same problem. I tried with different USB drives, and different images, even with a disk image created with a working Surface... But is just not reading from the usb drive, I know that because one of the drives has a LED indicator, and it doesn't show any activity. Will continue digging, if i get it to work will let you know
Some people have had success after opening and reseating the battery. Regardless of it being within warranty or not, MS update fucked it and they should be liable to fix it.
Hello, I have a tablet locked BitLocker ... let me know if I can boot a linux to recover files ... as you boot a USB flash ? ... Boot with UltraIso but will not start . Help .... Hola, tengo una tablet bloqueada con bitlocker... quiero saber si puedo arrancar un linux para recuperar archivos... como se bootea una flash usb?... booteo con UltraIso pero no arranca. Ayuda.
Hi I have Surface Pro 3 I was trying Restore from USB recovery drive but it doesn't work for me. When I press volume down button and Shut-down button its directly goes to windows. But I can go to boot....Its has only two option 1)SSD only 2)Network-USB-SSD. I tried on both option still doesnt work
please help i have a boot loop issue on my surface pro 3 its just going to surface logo then off again and even pressing volume down with recovery image usb i made it still loops any fix i am letting it discharge and loop now please help!!! :)
I was wondering if you may be able to help me! I've made the recovery drive for my surface pro 1 and i get to the point that it starts to reset and when it gets to 2% it goes back to a blue screen and said there was and error and can not reset
I'm doing this in 2019 (bought my Win 8.1 Surface Pro-2 in Nov 2013) because my Win8.1 is now sorta acting up. I had a Windows 8.1 update from March 17, 2019 that caused me problems. I had to roll back from this last update because I'd get BSODs upon startup (first I had "DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL" BSOD, then had a "BAD_POOL_HEADER" BSOD, then a "HTTP_DRIVER_CORRUPTED (http.sys)" BSOD..... So I disconnected internet completely, which for some reason letted me reboot normally after 2-3 tries and then I backed up all my files on a seperate HDs. Then rolled back to Feb updates which had not caused problems. Desabled win auto updates. Reconnected internet. And rebooted. It solved it. BUT It's been way too long since I did a fresh clean install on my Surface Pro2. Actually I never even did one!!!! Now, if I do a clean install from the newly made USB key I made today, will my clean install be flawed with conflicted patched over patched Windows updates like my current Win8.1 installed and almost-fully-updated version ??? I have 5 years of cumulated Win updates. Or will I have it exactly as I had the Pro2 the first day I opened it out of the box back in late 2013 ????
And also if you messed your surface up a little bit and you can't reformat it over the surface Settings > Recovery (i think it is) go to www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/warranty-service-and-recovery/downloadablerecoveryimage or google "surface pro 3 recovery image" download file install to flash drive and you can fallow the video :)
Recovery your pc needs to be repaired a required device isn't connected or can't be accesed error code: 0xc0000225 i have 2 securitys one in a usb drive another in a asd card..MADE FROM the surface.. :(
Omfg!! You are a life saver!! I've been all over the net frantically looking for an option to recover my deleted system. I literally tried everything, and never did I think about holding volume down and power
Thank you sir! Good Tutorial. One more thing to remember, if you have a micro sd card installed, take it out or you get an error trying to boot from the usb flash dive.
After wanting to get rid of Windows 10 and go back to 8/8.1, all the information on the internet was useless until I was lead back here (I had seen this before, but forgotten the details).
Only when I followed your instructions did I get anywhere at all. Windows 8 in on and updating.
You are my hero ;-)
You are 1000 times more useful than Surface support after 2 hours of chatting they gave me no solution and all that I needed to do was push the volume button plus the power .... Isn't that incredible..... Microsoft should fire their support people and pay you lots of money for your easy to follow support .... Thank you very, very much!!!
Very valid my dads surface pro 1 needed to be recovered didnt know how till i watched this video
we all know how to follow on screen instructions.. we are looking for on how to set up the USD drive properly
Download and create a USB recovery drive from another PC
To download the recovery drive, you’ll need:
- A USB drive with more than 4GB storage capacity.
- A PC running Windows 7 or later.
Here’s how to create the recovery drive:
1) Download the recovery drive files.
a) Go to download.microsoft.com
b) In the Search box enter Surface RT Recovery and the press Enter.
c) Tap or click on Surface RT Recovery in the search results and follow the instructions on the
screen to download.
2) When the download is complete, create the Surface USB recovery drive.
a) Insert your USB drive into the USB port of your PC.
b) From the desktop, open File Explorer.
c) Tap and Hold or right-click on the USB drive and choose Format.
d) Select FAT32 as the file system and enter a Volume label to name the USB drive, such as
RECOVERY, and then tap or click Start.
e) Tap or click OK to erase the contents of the USB drive.
f) Tap or click OK when the format is complete.
g) Copy the contents of the recovery image you downloaded to the USB flash drive.
@@8000860 The recovery image is larger than 4GB, will any other format work? Or does it have to be FAT32?
@@8000860 And do I use the .zip or the contents inside?
I hope you're doing well
Please tell me you realize you recovered from the repair part of windows and you never actually booted to your usb right?
Pandasaurus19 you are wrong, sir. Holding down on volume and then power with flash plugged in is how to boot from drive.
😂😂😂
"Hi, it's me, whoever I am, and I've just restored my Surface Pro from USB recovery drive! Thanks for watching!"
My RT had a OEM activation. Once you restored your RT did it ask for an activation key?
Really off topic but you sound like Ben Linus from the TV Show Lost.
Was your data retained or was it lost?
This helped me out so much! Thank you!
Hi where do I find the recovery partition? Thank you
I need one too!!! I have no idea why they don't have this available to download online! I REALLY need this to get my Surface functioning again!
I followed your steps and I keep getting an error that says "Insert your Windows installation or recovery media to continue". I have copied my recovery partition to the USB flash drive but still get that error. Any ideas how to procedd?
Do you just copy the files on to the USB from the Partitioned drive?
Gracias Me sirvio de mucho tu explicacion busque por muchos lugares y solo con tu tutorial pude reparar mi Surface 2 Gracias Bendiciones
donde conseguiste el sistema para meterlo?
Many thanks dear friend for great videos.I wanted to ask you are you even doing videos for surface pro 4?.Thanks anyway
that was very helpful tutorial,thnk u so much
keep upload more videos
could you do a tutorial for creating a boot-able USB drive using an surface 2 image to restore windows RT.
he cut the only interesting part
how long did you hold that volume down button since you cut it off from the video??
Mine didn’t work it stays on with the usb just blue screen tho but I only have a 2.0 usb drive how long should it take?
You sure that is a surface pro not surface RT?
Yes i need this please to be able to open it again but when i press the power and volume up buttons together it doesn’t show me like the video it show me the other screen in the video which i commented on it
Please can you help me ?
Hi, nice video, quick question about the backup, can I use a micro sd instead of usb to create recovery image ? thanks
out of curiosity i was wondering if possible using a micro sd card instead? I lose my usb all the time
i know this video is ancient but my windows does NOT boot after the reset process.
was your secure boot on or off? (mine in is on)
Nice tutorial
Do you have windows iso file for surface ?
Sir I have question
My Surface does not accept the connected USB drive as boot device, although there is a bootable Windows 10 and a Windows 8.0 recovery system on it. The USB drives LED flashes, signaling activity, but it still boots into an error message saying that windows installation isn't complete and has to restart.
Microsoft has no intention in helping.
same
Were you able to fix it ??
Blue=USB3.0 -- brilliant, thanks!
Hi I have a quick question, when I press the power up button while holding the lower volume and the logo appears and I release the lower volume button surface doesn't load up the usb boot file. Any ideas why not?
my surfbook has read stries on the desktop can you help me?
My process was set to make a clena install, and it never passes 2%. After around 2 or three hours it just return to a blue screen and says thre was an error rtesetting the device. I reviewed in console that there is no partitions at this moment. Was it the end of the tablet? it is a surface pro
I got the same problem, can you solve it now?
Long time ago.. Did you ever got a way to fix this problem? My surface does the exact same thing.. :(
never, it is now an expensive paperweight. sad this channel is unattended
how long does it take to switch from logo page to language options page? mine seems to be stuck for very long at the logo after i release the volume down button!
But what to do if you didn't made a recovery usb before it crashed ;(
You can create a recovery key from the microsoft help pages.
Ben Phillips you mean a recovery image right I downloaded it on USB FAT32 but not recognises it.
It worked.... thank you so much.
Trying to reinstall Win 10 home on a computer ruined by a failed Win 11 upgrade on Surface Book 2. I don't understand why what I see being different. I made a bootable Surface Recovery USB. I booted the computer by holding down vol down and power buttons. I did see the selections for language and keyboard. The option I see on the Surface Book 2 are different and when I go to Troubleshoot> Advanced, it displays a blank list of devices I can recover from, prompts for installing drivers, I don't even know which one I would choose and tried all usb*.inf files and no luck. Now it is asking me to connect to a network folder.
I have everything I need. Including the Bootable flash drive that I downloaded from Microsoft's website for my Surface Pro 2. Although I managed to accidentally cleaned what I think was Drive C, the drive that had the Operating System on. Following the steps to boot from the flash drive carefully... I had to hold Volume Down and Power, same steps that you completed in the video. But my USB Drive is not booting. I receive an endless loop between the UEIFI menu ( If that's how you spell it ) and the Surface Logo with no OS to boot from. Any Solutions to get the USB to boot?
in bios i hv only device information and exit sectable. how can i hv the ssd selectable please?
recovery downloading link plz for RT
i followed all your steps from previous video, but when i held Volume down + power (rlease power, and keep holding volume down) the surface would boot normally. Its like my USB never exsisted. But when i plug in my micro SD card, there would be a boot error. Do you know anything to help me on this issue?! I have a 64gb version and 8gb of extra space is really precious!
I did all those steps, but it after setting back ground color and renaming screen the table went in to sleep mode , i quick got the screen be on , but this time it went to user name and pass word screen without setting up a email and password . it only has other User access. Please help me reset over again... Thanks
Hi can you send me one flash drive for my windows surface 2. My surface need to be Repair and but is not responding at all. It just says update from USB back up drive. The reason I lost my flash drive. Please reply...
Your are my savior friend. thax!
I have the Surface Pro 3 with Windows 8.1 Pro. (I7. 512 GB, 64 Bit, 8.00 GB Ram).
Been having issues that I can't seem to fix and would like to restore but the idea of downloading all my software again is less than appealing. Is there any possible way to save software download files and transfer back to my system in working condition once the restore is complete? Or is there a way to at least save the activation codes so I won't have to contact the manufacturer for a new code? HELP!
Gimme dat il kep in ma showcase ma dea...
a small gift from u
did you use usb 2.0 or 3.0? thx
usb 3.0
can i get the recovery image please
well...my battery went down in the middle of the process and now it wont start.. but i still have tehe usb3 with the security copy.. what next steps now..?? :(
my pro surface 3 begins with the red home screen and go straight to the boot screen,
and so it is
what would be the solution to this problem
help me
please
I have subscribed Your Channe and also liked Right now.
does it work if I use it on my 500gb HD, it's not clear I have some files and folders there
i bought a surface pro. without Operation System, is this tutorial works for me?
Can any flash drive b use
Can you restore windows 8.1 pro on surface 2(not the pro version)
how many gb is the download ?
Hi I bought a rt in denmark but i want to put it in english the problem is that i made the usb key but it offers me other languages
Mine won't boot recovery mode. My USB is 16GB and formatted to FAT32, I have the correct files as per serial number from the MS website. I carefully follow the press volume down and power and only release volume down once the Surface splash screen appears for a few seconds. It just will not boot... I even leave it for 20 minutes and nothing, I dont even think it attempts to read the USB.
+Ant Man I have exactly the same problem. I tried with different USB drives, and different images, even with a disk image created with a working Surface... But is just not reading from the usb drive, I know that because one of the drives has a LED indicator, and it doesn't show any activity. Will continue digging, if i get it to work will let you know
Some people have had success after opening and reseating the battery. Regardless of it being within warranty or not, MS update fucked it and they should be liable to fix it.
I'm having the same problem. I had powered it down yesterday. And now it won't come up. Please post if you've found an answer. Thanks.
+Lyna Faucett Same Problem her.
Does this also create and restore the recovery partition or only the main partition in an 'out of the box' condition?
It is work for a Surface pro 2?
Making the USB key worked for me on my Surface Pro-2 . I did not try to boot from it though,.
Can I install a backup of windows 10 on surface rt 2?
Can you creat the same thing with using another tablet (surface) and how
hello! how or where can i download the usb recovery for my surface?
even if you download it from microsoft it wont be usefull,cuz i do as they instructed through email, but in vein
when i give it to reset i get error when resetting the computer
How to remove surface pro 4 forgotten UEFI BIOS password?
very useful❤
I TRIED THAT AND IT DOESN'T WORK PLEASE HELP
Hello, I have a tablet locked BitLocker ... let me know if I can boot a linux to recover files ... as you boot a USB flash ? ... Boot with UltraIso but will not start . Help ....
Hola, tengo una tablet bloqueada con bitlocker... quiero saber si puedo arrancar un linux para recuperar archivos... como se bootea una flash usb?... booteo con UltraIso pero no arranca. Ayuda.
whenever I add my recovery key it says the last 6 digits are wrong ??
Can you install win10 32bit on surface pro?
what if system has password?
Mine keeps saying undoing changes...
Sir please solve my problem.
hey sir can you help me
where can i find usb files
Hi I have Surface Pro 3 I was trying Restore from USB recovery drive but it doesn't work for me. When I press volume down button and Shut-down button its directly goes to windows.
But I can go to boot....Its has only two option 1)SSD only 2)Network-USB-SSD. I tried on both option still doesnt work
+Shabeer Ali, Have you checked whether your usb is bootable or not??
For me the problem is, that the surface logo does not show up. Only the Windows logo :P
please help i have a boot loop issue on my surface pro 3 its just going to surface logo then off again and even pressing volume down with recovery image usb i made it still loops any fix i am letting it discharge and loop now please help!!! :)
MKTEK HD Have you fixed your problem, this has happened to me recently
I am having a similar problem with my surface pro 4
I was wondering if you may be able to help me! I've made the recovery drive for my surface pro 1 and i get to the point that it starts to reset and when it gets to 2% it goes back to a blue screen and said there was and error and can not reset
can anyone tell me what kind of partition is used in surface pro1. and what type of system file could be used for installing windows.
help me guys i lost my Recovery flash drive and my surface pro 1 not booting the window so what i do now ?????????
Mi surface no quiere encesnder del todo solo se queda en negro la pantalla
I'm doing this in 2019 (bought my Win 8.1 Surface Pro-2 in Nov 2013) because my Win8.1 is now sorta acting up. I had a Windows 8.1 update from March 17, 2019 that caused me problems. I had to roll back from this last update because I'd get BSODs upon startup (first I had "DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL" BSOD, then had a "BAD_POOL_HEADER" BSOD, then a "HTTP_DRIVER_CORRUPTED (http.sys)" BSOD..... So I disconnected internet completely, which for some reason letted me reboot normally after 2-3 tries and then I backed up all my files on a seperate HDs. Then rolled back to Feb updates which had not caused problems. Desabled win auto updates. Reconnected internet. And rebooted. It solved it. BUT It's been way too long since I did a fresh clean install on my Surface Pro2. Actually I never even did one!!!! Now, if I do a clean install from the newly made USB key I made today, will my clean install be flawed with conflicted patched over patched Windows updates like my current Win8.1 installed and almost-fully-updated version ??? I have 5 years of cumulated Win updates. Or will I have it exactly as I had the Pro2 the first day I opened it out of the box back in late 2013 ????
Mine on the surface pro 2 (canadian french keyboard - french language) take 5.7 Gb on the USB key...
Can someone please make me a recovery, I hard bricked by surface and I can not find a file anywhere
one more thing an image that can be downloaded from Microsoft website, not the surface image restore point..
And also if you messed your surface up a little bit and you can't reformat it over the surface Settings > Recovery (i think it is)
go to www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/warranty-service-and-recovery/downloadablerecoveryimage
or
google "surface pro 3 recovery image"
download file install to flash drive and you can fallow the video :)
i come in the uefa modus, help please
FORMAT OF USB? FAT32 or NTFS?
Fat32. NTFS isn't really used on memory sticks unless you need to transfer large files
I can format in exfat?
Yea he freed up 7.6Gb or so on the Surface!
my surface pro does not boot, I get Error 0xc0000001, can anyone help?
are you still needing help
I need help I'm getting that error
Hi Sir
Recovery
your pc needs to be repaired
a required device isn't connected or can't be accesed
error code: 0xc0000225
i have 2 securitys one in a usb drive another in a asd card..MADE FROM the surface.. :(
+Arménio Barão this is what my surface say
+Usman yousaf thanks found it
+Usman yousaf gimme a link bro
love you
at least 8 GBs
y no puedo widows 7
Can you please send me a usb with this recovery image? Been having problems downloading it due to its large file size
I NEED YOU HEPL PLEASE
he using usb3.0
i suscribed sir