During installation of 8.1 preview, the several automated restarts resulted in a BCD error. I was smart enough to make a backup, however it is corrupt! Just a word of caution for people. MS techs are calling me tomorrow with possible workarounds but it sounded like they were just going to ship a new device and be done with it. If anyone has any tips or ideas I'd appreciate it. I definitely don't want to ship this tablet out if I don't have to.
RT or Pro?
Kraize said:
RT or Pro?
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32gb surface rt from usa
Wow that's odd...I just did it with no problems at all. Can you boot from USB? Because if you can, then you can just burn the rt ISO to a flash drive and recover it from there.
Oh, and btw, 8.1 makes this device at least 2 times as fast as it was out of the box. With 8.1, everything is just faster with almost no lag. So if you can, I really would recommend installing it if you get it fixed. It should only reboot twice. Once for the update, and once to set up everything.
Errored out during installation the first time for me and reinstalled my previous version of windows. Just went back in the store and reinstalled it. Worked just fine the second time. Crazy fast for me. Surface rt 32 gb.
I cant install it on mine yet, keeps saying not available at this time.
EN-GB 32 RT, have reset it and set it up as a EN-US device, got the Preview in Store but just waiting for server load to drop off I guess.
Oh, and if anyone nails the install and ends up with a dead machine, I have an EN-GB recovery link in my sig.
I also have an FTP server here in the UK with it on if people are desperate.
Trig0r said:
I cant install it on mine yet, keeps saying not available at this time.
EN-GB 32 RT, have reset it and set it up as a EN-US device, got the Preview in Store but just waiting for server load to drop off I guess.
Oh, and if anyone nails the install and ends up with a dead machine, I have an EN-GB recovery link in my sig.
I also have an FTP server here in the UK with it on if people are desperate.
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I have your recovery file, do I just put the iso on a USB? Or do I need to make the drive bootable?
williams37 said:
I have your recovery file, do I just put the iso on a USB? Or do I need to make the drive bootable?
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As with every other ISO on the planet, you need to use a disk imaging tool to make a bootable USB
any chance you can post your link for the recovery file? I would appreciate it if you could
jolpool said:
any chance you can post your link for the recovery file? I would appreciate it if you could
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its in his signature
the link is taking me to another thread and there is no link there?
It shows up in the store for me when I did those four steps but the download always sais not available right now
So then I changed locale to US as suggested, the text is no longer corrupted but still won't download.
UK surface RT...and with RT you can't use iso file so store is my only option. It could just be overcrowded server but I really want the dam thing to download
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As with every other ISO on the planet, you need to use a disk imaging tool to make a bootable USB
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I didn't ask because I was being lazy, I asked because I have tried every method I can think of to boot from that iso and it still doesn't work. I can't get to anything other than the surface logo then the error. I have tried multiple ways of making that drive bootable, but whenever I start surface holding volume down, the drive will flash for about 3 seconds then cut to the BCD error. And the tool in the windows store "Windows 7 usb download" tool does not recognize the iso as a windows file and will not create the drive with it. I have tried rufus and a program called iso to usb. Drive formatted as NTSF and for the sake of not going crazy tried FAT32. Same outcome regardless of approach.
I need the link to the surface rt recovery file too. the link in the signature takes me to another thread
lilivo said:
I need the link to the surface rt recovery file too. the link in the signature takes me to another thread
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How about you read the thread which then has the link in it.
Rocket science at its best
Maybe I should just have the file in my FTP and a direct link in my sig, perhaps that'd be easier lol
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I didn't ask because I was being lazy, I asked because I have tried every method I can think of to boot from that iso and it still doesn't work. I can't get to anything other than the surface logo then the error. I have tried multiple ways of making that drive bootable, but whenever I start surface holding volume down, the drive will flash for about 3 seconds then cut to the BCD error. And the tool in the windows store "Windows 7 usb download" tool does not recognize the iso as a windows file and will not create the drive with it. I have tried rufus and a program called iso to usb. Drive formatted as NTSF and for the sake of not going crazy tried FAT32. Same outcome regardless of approach.
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Same for me. I guess the drive needs the bootfiles for an RT device. If you make an usb-drive bootable on an x86/x64-system, the drive will contain code that can't run on ARM.
If anyone knows how to make the drive bootable for RT, I'd really like to know as well.
Just copy the files in the recovery to a fat32 formatted usb drive, then hold the volume down button plus power button, this will take time to boot but its normal. I already have my own recovery on a usb stick, but never deleted the built in one. Tried installing this on an x86 netbook but the wim file isn't recognized.
If anyone else is having trouble installing the RT preview, there's a way to change the base language. First is installing a language pack (US) and setting it as default language, then changing something in the registry with the name InstallLanguage and changing its value to 0409.
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Just copy the files in the recovery to a fat32 formatted usb drive, then hold the volume down button plus power button, this will take time to boot but its normal. I already have my own recovery on a usb stick, but never deleted the built in one. Tried installing this on an x86 netbook but the wim file isn't recognized.
If anyone else is having trouble installing the RT preview, there's a way to change the base language. First is installing a language pack (US) and setting it as default language, then changing something in the registry with the name InstallLanguage and changing its value to 0409.
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Thank you! and without the condescending tone even. This is exactly what I needed. Back up and running thanks to this.
Clean Install RT 8.1 from MS Surface EN-US 32gb.
Use this USB Image Tool to write the file to your USB drive.
This has to be done from a Windows 8 PRO, or Windows 7 computer. Will not run on RT.
This WILL make the USB Bootable! (unlike many .iso files)
http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/
Download the Image Here:
SurfaceRT8_1RecoveryEN-US.zip 3.53 GB
https://mega.co.nz/#!WAo2HZyT!RiKB1jVVd_LRMHf9ynpkbmYheQp5ZcG8oaPvm7Vt5d4
This was made with an 8gb flash drive. I believe you will need an 8gb flash drive, or to mess with options for smaller drives. Actual image data should be ~2gb.
What to do after downloading Files..
Can you please tell how to install it..
My device showing error 0x0000005C
Aju22 said:
What to do after downloading Files..
Can you please tell how to install it..
My device showing error 0x0000005C
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hi did you come right with the recovery image.
Hi, I know this is a bit late, but when I follow this, I get stuck on not being able to select the keyboard language. I believe it is because the screen is not responding. I have a surface 2 that is running windows 8.1 rt, but is stuck on not being able to repair the installation. When I run bootrec /rebuildcbd, I get a message stating unable to find any windows installation. Is there a way to boot up to back up files to a usb?
Thanks!
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Hi, I know this is a bit late, but when I follow this, I get stuck on not being able to select the keyboard language. I believe it is because the screen is not responding. I have a surface 2 that is running windows 8.1 rt, but is stuck on not being able to repair the installation. When I run bootrec /rebuildcbd, I get a message stating unable to find any windows installation. Is there a way to boot up to back up files to a usb?
Thanks!
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Hey,
I'm actually surprised that it let you boot-up a Surface 2. I was under the impression that the image was just for the Vivo Tab. I unfortunately don't have the table anymore so I cannot check for you. I'm sorry about that.
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Hey,
I'm actually surprised that it let you boot-up a Surface 2. I was under the impression that the image was just for the Vivo Tab. I unfortunately don't have the table anymore so I cannot check for you. I'm sorry about that.
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Thanks, I managed to figure most of it out. I had managed to get a backup from the surface Microsoft website but I was trying to avoid a complete reinstall as I was trying to save files for a friend. Unfortunately the c drive was blank except for a few log files and then there was an x drive. Fortunately I found the "dir \*.doc /s" and it didn't find anything, so I had to reinstall everything anyway.
Hi guys,
Can anyone help me on uploading the recovery partition to somewhere? I accidentally deleted this and now i cannot reinstall the Windows OS
Im living in a country that is not supported by Microsoft
Plz help
Thanks and Regards
Chip
If you need a US-EN surface Pro 2 recovery img PM me. I can't post links until 10+ posts.
US and EU version of recovery data don't work with my Surface Pro 2. My Surface Pro 2 is Australia version. Does anyone have the AU version? Plz help me
my email: [email protected]
All recoveries work on all devices, if it is not working then it is user error not technical error.
I did recover my SP2 by US and EU version download, but after that while the OS was loading, there're some error messages appeared such as: "I/O error 0xc0000185"
How it is "user error" ?_?
So, I just tested my US-EN recovery files and they work. Can some one else test to see if they work? If they don't I will upload the recovery USB that came directly from Microsoft which does have some differences. The files are located on depositfiles and there are 23 of them due to my upload speed and intermittent connection.
depositfiles
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/FH6HZOSEP
Sorry, can't post links
Hey all, so i recently got this device and it was working well up untill i decided to try and remove the android partitions.. i think i removed a couple too many as there were like 20 different ones and now the result is it wont boot up neither windows or android.
I can't get to the recovery of either operating system and i dont own a Windows 8.1 32bit pc, only 64 bits so i cant create a recovery disk for that.. i dont even think it will work because i probably deleted the windows img partition aswell.. jeez
So i went to their website, which btw is the worst chinese website i've ever come across and in the forums i think i found a couple of links to the original firmware.. the only thing is it wont download and its asking me for a baidu account which is impossible to create and activate.
http://bbs.chuwi.com/forum-38-1.html
Does anyone know if it's possible to put a normal windows version on this tablet? And how? I'm totally new to this
sorry for the chaos, i'm a bit confused atm
Just download 32bit version of windows8.1 iso (any version) from Microsoft web site extract it with winrar into an USB drive (min 16 GB) switch off your device and power it on along hold down volume button until you see boot menu and follow through. After complete installation ask me for windows activator. Hope will work
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in case you just ruined the android partitions(like i did) just turn on the tablet for 5sec with vol up pressed. you should get 2 icons windows and undroid. choose windows if you are lucky windows is on. time to upgrade to win10 with windows update on control panel