On this second USB flash drive, I created another recovery drive, but this time I did not copy the files from the recovery zip just yet. It is at this point in my saga that I unintentionally made a really smart move, I set that USB, with all the recovery files on it, to the side and tried a different USB.
These are all lies, the drive is bootable, but the option to restore the system from it does not show up. It then instructs you on creating a recovery drive copying files from the zip over to it and booting. Microsoft's support website will, after inputting your device serial number, give you links to two different zip files (one for Windows 8.1, the other for 10). The best advice I could possibly give to anybody else looking to do this is simply don't. Either use a regular install USB and install the older version the regular way, or just stay on 11.įollowing the official procedure for creating a recovery USB for flashing back to stock just results in having to try and remember how to use DISM to manually apply a swm file at 3 in the morning, and even after you succeed, you still have to install all the Windows updates.īut hey, at least I got my colored rectangles back.Īnd now, a detailed breakdown of my experience, restoring a Surface Pro 3 to factory defaults. For those interested in rolling back to Windows 10 or even Windows 8, I highly advise that you do not do this. I am comfortable with using either, but I'm not sure would give me the most usability.Īny recommendations? Do I flash back to the 8.1 that it came with and was designed for? Do I slap Windows 10 on this baby and see how long I can ride it? Surprise linux out of left field?Įdit: Status update for the curious: I did end up flashing the Windows 10 image provided by Microsoft on the recovery page. I'm planning on flashing a recovery image to take it back to stock, and I have the choice of either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 Version 1511. It mostly works OK, except at some point one of my brothers did an unsupported install of Windows 11 and it's been acting kind of jank since - the size of some fonts and menus are borderline unusably small and higher DPI settings look just. My dad recently updated from his old Pro 3 to the 8, and I got the hand-me down tablet.
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