Surface Recovery Images

[Tabita Knezevic]

MiniToolOEM program enable partners like hardware / software vendors and relative technical service providers to embed MiniTool software with their own products to add value to their products or services and expand their market.

The system image is an important file stored on a dedicated recovery partition to restore or reset your computer. The recovery image can be used as a restore point for your system. If your computer runs into problems like partition loss or system crash, the recovery image can help you revert the OS to its normal state.

More important thing is to make sure that the USB drive should be formatted to FAT32. When it comes to formatting a USB drive, the Windows Disk Management or Diskpart tool may be your first choice. However, both the two tools have limitations in formatting a USB drive larger than 32 GB.

To format the USB drive quickly and effectively, we highly recommend you use a professional disk management tool like MiniTool Partition Wizard. It is a multifunctional partition manager that can format a USB drive to FAT32/NTFS/exFAT/Ext/Linux Swap with a few clicks. Moreover, this tool boasts many other powerful features like converting NTFS to FAT32 without data loss, converting MBR to GPT, extending partition, measuring disk, etc.

Step 1. Launch the MiniTool program to enter its main interface, select the USB drive from the disk map and click on Format Partition from the left action panel. Also, you can right-click the USB drive and select Format.

Step 1. Make sure that your Surface is turned on and plugged in, and insert the USB drive into the ports before you start creating the Surface Pro recovery image. If possible, we recommend you use a USB 3.0 drive.

Step 4. Wait for the tool to detect your USB drive automatically. Once detected, select the USB drive and click on Next > Create. This process will copy many files/folders into the recovery drive, so you may need to wait for a while.

Once done, make sure you Safely eject the USB drive from the taskbar. Then you can boot your Surface from the USB recovery drive and perform a reset/refresh of your system with the image.

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.

Step 6. 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.

In this case, you need to enable the boot-from-USB option from the Surface BIOS or set the USB recovery drive as the first boot option. Here we will show you how to set the USB as the first boot order.

Where to download Surface recovery images? How to create a Surface recovery USB drive and use it to reset the Surface? All these answers have been illustrated in the given post. In addition, we also provide solutions to fix the Surface recovery USB drive not working issue.

If you have any other questions about the Microsoft Surface recovery image topic, please leave them down in the comment area. Well, you can send us an email via [email protected] when you have difficulty formatting the USB drive with MiniTool Partition Wizard.

In this article, I will share a List of Surface Device Recovery Images with Windows OS Versions. Microsoft announced that the Windows 11 Surface recovery images would be available for the latest Surface devices like Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Pro 8, and Surface Go 3.

Microsoft Surface devices come with Windows recovery info that you can use to rebuild Surface devices (bare metal) or reset Surface devices into their factory condition. A recovery drive image for Surface devices will help you to reset your Surface to its factory settings.

This is the preparation task before starting to download the Surface Recovery image. I have provided the List of Surface Device Recovery Images with Windows OS Versions in the below section of the post.

The surface device recovery image download website will show you the supported recovery images for your surface devices. I have come up with a quick list of Windows Operating System versions available as recovery images for various surface devices in the following section of this post. The List of Surface Device Recovery Images with Windows OS Versions details is available in the below section of the post.

You will need to make sure that you have plugged in a USB drive. Ensure that there is no data in that USB drive because the drive gets formatted during the recovery drive process. You can complete the wizard by just clicking on the Next and Create buttons.

The following are the three main processes that will be carried out during the Surface recovery drive creation process. The copying utilities step is going to take a few minutes to complete. Once the recovery drive creation process is completed, you can select the Finish button.

This is the final step of the USB recovery drive creation process for the Surface device. You can open the Zip file downloaded in the above section and copy all the content (all files and folders) of the Zip file to the USB recovery drive that you created in the above step.

Now, you have a bootable USB. You can go ahead and boot the Surface device from the USB drive and perform the recovery and get back to the factory settings.

TheList of Surface Device Recovery Images with Windows OS Versions helps you understand the recovery options for your surface devices. Also, this list helps to plan for recovery and update to the latest supported operating systems.

You can also check whether all these surface devices are compatible with Windows 11. The previous blog post about Windows 11 Minimum updated system requirements is worth going through to know more about the upgrade prerequisites.

Two images of a Lambertian surface obtained under different illumination conditions, determine the local surface normals up to two possible orientations. We show that for smooth surfaces, the local integrability constraints usually resolve the problem of deciding between the two possibilities. We also provide a complete characterization of the surfaces that remain ambiguous under given illumination conditions.

Microsoft just launched its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7. The devices are among the first wave of Copilot+ PCs that run on Snapdragon X Elite or Snapdragon X Plus processors. If you grabbed yourself one of the new flagship PCs during launch week and have run into serious issues, there is a new solution available. Microsoft released recovery images for the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7, giving users another way to reset their PCs.

There are multiple ways to reset a Windows 11 PC, including options that do not require a recovery image. Generally speaking, those options should be tried first before using a recovery image to reset your PC. But there are cases in which resetting your PC to factory conditions is not the solution to an issue. A recovery image can provide a way to reset your PC in those instances.

To get a recovery image for your Surface device, you'll need to sign into Microsoft's website. Once signed in, you can select the product you need a recovery image for and then enter the serial number of your device. Note that due to Microsoft's naming scheme for the new Surface devices, which are officially called the Surface Pro 11th Edition and Surface Pro 7th Edition, the PCs appear in the dropdown menu in an order you may not expect.

Microsoft's new flagship 2-in-1 is here, ushering in a wave of Copilot+ PCs. The new Surface Pro has an OLED panel and Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X processors. The Essentials Bundle saves you money on Microsoft 365 and gets you a 20% discount on a Surface Pro Flex Keyboard.

As the latest flagship laptop from Microsoft, the Surface Laptop 7 has a sleek design and is powered by a Snapdragon X processor. It promises long battery life and AI features exclusive to Copilot+ PCs.

Using a recovery image is for when your Surface won't start or if you want to reset the PC and recovery information has been removed from the device. The process requires a recovery drive and a bit of technical knowledge. Microsoft's guide is thorough. Take a look through that guide and see if you're comfortable following it before starting the reset process on your PC.

Sean Endicott brings nearly a decade of experience covering Microsoft and Windows news to Windows Central. He joined our team in 2017 as an app reviewer and now heads up our day-to-day news coverage. If you have a news tip or an app to review, hit him up at sean.e...@futurenet.com."}), " -0-10/js/authorBio.js"); } else console.error('%c FTE ','background: #9306F9; color: #ffffff','no lazy slice hydration function available'); Sean EndicottSocial Links NavigationNews Writer and apps editorSean Endicott brings nearly a decade of experience covering Microsoft and Windows news to Windows Central. He joined our team in 2017 as an app reviewer and now heads up our day-to-day news coverage. If you have a news tip or an app to review, hit him up at sean.e...@futurenet.com.

"Hi, I made a Recovery Image with Microsoft but could not restore it properly. When I unzipped the file with Secure Boot turned off, initially, there were no errors, but upon reboot, I was asked the BitLocker Recovery Code to continue booting. Then, I tried doing a full factory surface recovery Image with everything done. At the end, the system displayed an error message stating, "Error while trying to reset the system."

3a8082e126