Yes, this is an old thread, but someone might need to see this (which I am fairly sure is correct, but please set me straight if not).

Having just fixed a fairly difficult hack, I can understand...

Yes, I'm sorry. Microsoft sure picked a long name for that functionality. The info I see here made me figure that you'd correctly interpret DFAS.

I kind of had an idea that it goes the way that...

This way is the desperation method. I used it when my surface (uefi) declined to let me change the settings that would make a wipe followed by an install or recovery possible.

I had a friend make...

This question is fairly simple for someone who has a better overall understanding of this stuff than I do, but it stems from a train wreck of events.

The bottom line is that I insist on owning my...

I'm here for two reasons. I like some of the answers that I've seen here during a multi-year long fight with a hacked Surface/Win10 Pro. I slugged it out for a while in order to get a better idea...