Have a usb boot drive handy should you ever need to reinstall windows 10 on your pc.
Windows tablet usb boot.
Move the mouse to the upper right side of the surface window and click settings.
Your computer will boot from the usb bootable drive only if it supports this type of boot.
While most modern computers today support usb booting there are some that do not.
Turn on the pc and press the key that opens the boot device selection menu for the computer such as the esc f10 f12 keys.
Connect the usb flash drive to a new pc.
Only windows boot manager is available in your pc boot menu while trying to reinstall windows 7 over your preloaded windows 10 or windows 8 8 1 via a bootable usb drive or usb stick.
Under advanced startup select restart now.
Not all the computers support usb boot.
Ian knighton cnet it s easy to get intimidated when you hear terms like bootable usb or media creation tool.
For more information see automate windows setup.
Surface will boot from the usb device and run the program on the usb drive.
Start from the usb through windows.
Step 3 install windows to the new pc.
When your surface pc tablet is running how to boot it from usb.
If you re having trouble starting your surface with the bootable usb you can try booting through windows.
Install this on your tablet then back up the entire disk to your tablet s microsd storage before creating a failsafe macrium usb bootable drive for restoring the backup if required.
Insert the usb device into the surface pc tablet.