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Surface Pro 3 Os Iso Download Clean Install Windows 10 on Surface Pro 3 surface pro 3 os iso download Clean install Windows 10 on Surface Pro 3. So Windows 10 has just been released to the masses with a promise to undo all the problems that plagued its predecessor - Windows 8. Being a tech enthusiast living on the bleeding edge, my dad wanted to do a clean install of Windows 10 on his Surface Pro 3 instead of upgrading from his current version of Windows 8.1. This simple task ended up frustrating the both of us because of the various hoops that we had to solve on the way. To summarise, the main challenges were: Surface can only boot from a USB that is formatted with FAT32 The downloaded Windows 10 ISO file (downloaded via Microsoft’s media creation tool) is only compatible with a NTFS formatted USB drive by most ISO-to-USB tools Knowing how to force a Surface to boot from USB. Having eventually been successful in the clean install, here is a walkthrough of what we ended up doing: Step 1: Download Windows 10 ISO. Using the media creation tool, choose to download Windows 10 to an ISO file instead of running an immediate upgrade. Step 2: Extract ISO to USB. Creating a bootable USB drive from the downloaded Windows 10 ISO using a tool such as Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool will not work out of the box. That’s because the tool ends up ( always ) creating a bootable USB drive formatted with NTFS which is not compatible with the Surface Pro that expects a UEFI boot device; i.e. one that is formatted with FAT32 and not NTFS. The workaround that ended up working for us is manually extracting the ISO to a USB that is formatted with FAT32. Format a USB drive with FAT32 Mount the Windows 10 ISO file or manually extract the file to disk Manually copy the extracted ISO files to the USB drive. Step 3: Disable BitLocker drive encryption. Attempting to format your primary drive and do a clean install when running on Windows 7/8/10 can frequently fail because the latter encrypts your drive by default with BitLocker encryption for additional security. So you will need to check and disable BitLocker for your drive if its turned on. To decrypt your primary drive and all your files, goto “Control Panel > System and Security > BitLocker Drive Encryption” and choose to “Turn off BitLocker”. This process could very well take a good 5 to 10 minutes. Step 4: Booting Surface from USB. Now that you have a bootable Windows 10 USB drive formatted with FAT32, your last step is to boot your Surface from USB and go through the standard Windows setup installation. As per Microsoft’s instructions, to start the Surface from a USB drive follow the following steps: Insert a Windows 10 bootable USB drive into the USB port on your Surface Press and hold the volume-down button Press and release the power button When the Surface logo appears, release the volume-down button. Surface should boot Windows 10 installation from your USB drive and hopefully you are now well on your way to start clean installation of this fantastic OS that is apparently the last of its kind. Hi, I'm Hady and I lead an awesome group of talented people building product at @Xero. I am passionate about software craftsmanship, and you will find me these days mulling the following quesiton in my head - how to create an environment that encourages teams to take ownership and genuinely care about what they do. How to Reload Windows 8.1 on Your Surface Pro Tablet. If you upgraded your Surface Pro tablet to the Windows 10 preview and everything broke, or you just need to completely reinstall the thing, today we’re going to show you how to reload Windows with a recovery USB. This should work for any Surface tablet, although we’re using the Surface Pro 3. And yes, we upgraded to the Windows 10 preview which currently has some serious bugs for Surface tablet users. Note that we’re not complaining, it’s a preview, and Microsoft even warned us ahead of time that it would probably not work well. But now it’s time to reload Windows 8.1 on the Surface tablet. And because we replaced Windows 8 entirely we’ll need to download the recovery USB. If your Surface tablet is still running Windows 8.x and you are able to boot, you can just do a Reset from the PC Settings to completely reinstall, which is probably a better option. If you can’t boot, or you wiped the drive for some reason, you’ll need to keep reading. Note: if you have any data on this tablet that you want to keep, you should have already backed it up. Because this is going to completely wipe the computer. How to Create a Recovery USB for Your Surface Tablet. First you’ll want to head over to Microsoft’s website and download the Recovery USB image. You’ll have to enter the serial number from the back of your Surface tablet. While your recovery image is downloading, insert your USB drive and format it to FAT32 (right-click the drive in Computer and choose Format). We highly recommend using a USB3 flash drive instead of a USB2 if you have one. Just make sure to get a good drive like this one. Once you’ve downloaded the very large recovery image, you’ll need to unzip it to a folder. And then copy the contents of the folder to the root of the USB drive. That should be all you need to do. Using the Recovery USB to Reload Windows on the Surface. Now that you have your Recovery USB, insert it into the USB port on your Surface tablet. And now hold down the Volume Down button, press the Power button, and continue holding the Volume Down button until you see the Surface logo. Hold volume down. Press Power and release. See Surface logo. Release volume down button. You’ll be presented with a prompt for language and such before getting to the actual recovery menu. You’ll want to select Troubleshoot… And then select Reset your PC. We forgot to take a picture of this screen so this screenshot is from a virtual machine. It’s the same thing though. You’ll be presented with a somewhat confusing Reset your PC screen. Here’s what you need to do: Press the Continue button even though it looks grayed out. When “Skip this drive” shows up, press that link. Now you’ll be asked to choose your target operating system. You’ll want to select the one that you want to wipe… even if it says Windows 10 or something else. It doesn’t matter, because it’ll reload from the USB drive you created. You’ll be prompted whether or not you want to repartition the drives. If you want to make sure the old operating system is completely wiped or you made changes to partitions, select Yes here. Again, you should have already backed everything up before you got to this point, because everything is going to be wiped no matter what you do. Once you reboot you might get prompted to reset the TPM. Just hit the F12 key on the keyboard (you’ll need to hold down the Fn key at the same time). After a fairly long process of reinstalling the computer, everything should be clean and just like the first time you took it out of the box. We’ll try installing Windows 10 again later, once they work out more of the bugs. Bliss OS Features. We offer many custom options for big screens and small screens alike that allow you to setup your device for various different tasks. Performance. We built the OS with a focus on speed and stability with tweaks to assist in the most demanding applications. Battery-friendly. Extra options are provided to help tune battery consumption to the best levels. Added Security. Additional security options and features are found throughout the OS. And AOSP security updates are merged regularly. Compatibility. We bring Bliss to every device we own. And our PC builds include extras for ARM/ARM64 app compatibility. Desktop or Tablet UI. Bliss OS lets the user choose between Desktop or Tablet UI, based on the launcher being used. You can even mix the two for a truly customized experience. Taskbar, by @farmerbb. An Open Source Desktop launcher that allows the use of a bottom taskbar, with Bliss button (start menu) BoringdroidSystemUI, by @Utzcoz. An integrated desktop launcher with tasks, built into the navigation bar (Coming Soon) AOSP based Launcher. An Open Source launcher that is more geared towards a tablet interface. Based off AOSP Launcher 3. More Compatibility. Bliss OS comes with a variety of added features for compatibility with ARM and x86/x86_64 apps. As well as added configurations for many gamepads and profiles for Tincore Keymapper, allowing users to game like never before. Visit our communities and share how you use Bliss OS. What Does Bliss OS Do Different? Many of our competitors do offer a free download, but they are still making money off your data. We respect your personal data. Not only do we respect your privacy, but we vow to never include anything to put your data in jeopardy. We are also constantly updating things with the latest security updates from Google for our currently developed version(s) of Bliss OS.
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