How to Boot Surface from USB [For All Models]

For example:

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Make a Bootable USB Drive

Ordinary USB drives cannot boot a PC.

To make Surface boot from USB, you should make a bootable USB drive in advance.

Turn off Fast Startup

Fast startup is a feature aiming to reduce the Windows startup time.

This feature resort to Hibernate feature to store most work done during PC startup from memory to disk.

Therefore, your PC will not really shut down.

If you want to enter Surface BIOS through keyboards/buttons, you should turn off the fast startup feature first.

Here is the guide:

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Part of the reason is theSecure Bootfunction of UEFI.

The purpose of Secure Boot is to prevent malware intrusion.

Its approach is to use keys.

When the motherboard leaves the factory, some reliable public keys can be built in.

Apparently, those malwares are unable to pass the certification.

However, Microsoft uses this feature to inhibit the expansion of other operating systems (Linux OS).

As a result, Linux cannot boot up when Secure Boot is enabled.

If your bootable USB drive is using Linux OS, you should turn off the Secure Boot in UEFI.

Quick Fix: Secure Boot Violation Invalid Signature Detected

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Therefore, having a wired mouse and keyboard is very necessary.

Here are 3 ways for you.

Way 1.

Resort to Windows

This method will boot from USB directly and will not enter UEFI.

So if your bootable USB drive is using Linux or other systems, this method is not very convenient.

Here is the guide:

Way 2.

Use the Volume-Down Button

This method will not enter UEFI still.

In addition, this requires you disable Fast Startup first.

Here is the guide:

Way 3.

Use the Volume-Up Button

This method will enter UEFI.

So, if your bootable USB drive is using Linux or other systems, this method is recommended.

Here is the guide:

Why your Surface Pro wont turn on or wake up from sleep?

Do you know how to make it back to normal?

In this article, we will show you some useful solutions.

In this case, you’re free to try the following methods to solve this problem.

Right-grab the NTFS partition of the bootable USB drive and chooseConvert NTFS to FAT.

Step 2:Click theApplybutton to start the conversion operation really.

Can you upgrade Surface to Windows 11?

According to reports, older Microsoft Surface devices cannot upgrade to Windows 11.

See details from this post.

Here is a post talking about how to make Surface boot from USB.

And the way in this post is suitable for most Surface models.

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