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Drivers and Firmware have been a problem with the SP Pro 4....many updates already trying to sort out the various bugs.
M$ do in fact do a Surface Firmware and Driver Pack, though how to install it when I cannot get past the EUFI page.
I believe M$ in order to boost the security of this product have made it almost impossible to rectify without specialist equipment or knowledge.
Ya never know until you know
Using a Microsoft Surface USB recovery drive
Not sure if this helps you get past the UEFI page or not
Use the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) on Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book | UEFI settings
- you could of course chat with a live agent - sometimes it's useless, other times, not so much
Surface Firmware and Driver Pack: Download Surface Pro 4 Drivers and Firmware from Official Microsoft Download Center
Select SurfacePro4_Win10_160701_1.msi
and since it's UEFI - the USB must be formatted FAT32 (although I've read that might no longer be true ... but just in case)
My real response is: Why would MS offer a Recovery image specific to Surface and specific to each model? There must be something unique in the package or else I think the support page would just point you to the Media Creation Tool
but then I know nothing about these things :)
No really, I know nothing about the Surface products.
Not a lot of info to go on? Stand alone? Built into Windows? What is his definition of a "clean installation"? Enquiring minds want to know?
I do a clean install of Windows, then back it up using something like Aomei, Acronis, or Macrium. They will create a 35-30 GB compressed boot drive image on my storage drive. If something goes wrong, boot from a DVD and Windows is totally restored in 15 minutes.
I keep a totally clean version, and a current version with all programs installed. I don't get how anything could be better.
Now, that's me. When friends and relatives call me to rescue them, my method is useless. The new Windows solution could help a lot in that case. I'm all for it.
Last edited by bobad; 20 May 2016 at 13:35.
Likewise, but, the initial install contains things I would never want, so....
after tweaking and tuning Windows to my liking, only THEN, do I make that initial backup of my C: drive, to an external HD.
If I ever need to Restore that initial backup, I've saved myself all the time it takes to do all the tweaking and tuning.
Remember: "The only bad backup is the one you decided NOT to make".
TechnoMage
Download: Refresh Windows Tool
Download:
download.microsoft.com/download/8/7/5/8754417B-C1A4-4D6C-8424-E1CD99F51B28/RefreshWindowsTool.exe
See also: Coming Soon: A Tool to Start Fresh
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/i...=1463023852150
Note:
What’s very important to note, however, is that this program only works with Redstone builds, so if you want to use it on a computer running the stable version of Windows 10, it won’t launch.