{"id":2778,"date":"2013-07-17T01:07:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T01:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2013-07-17T01:07:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T01:07:02","slug":"how-to-boot-microsoft-surface-pro-from-usb-flash-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-boot-microsoft-surface-pro-from-usb-flash-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Boot Microsoft Surface Pro from USB Flash Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, if you&#8217;re troubleshooting your Surface Pro tablet or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/knowledge\/reset-windows-8-password.html\">resetting forgotten Windows 8 password<\/a>, you&#8217;ll have to boot it from a USB flash drive. Here&#8217;s how you can boot your Microsoft Surface Pro tablet from a USB flash drive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Boot Microsoft Surface Pro from USB Flash Drive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Shut down your Microsoft Surface Pro tablet.<\/li>\n<li>Plug in your USB flash drive.<\/li>\n<li>Press and hold the Volume down key on the left side of the Surface Pro and press the Power button once.<\/li>\n<li>If you do the combination correctly, the system will attempt to boot from the operating system which is installed on your USB flash drive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please note that Microsoft Surface Pro tablet runs with only UEFI native mode. It doesn&#8217;t support Legacy BIOS mode. So you can only install a 64-bit UEFI capable operating system on your USB flash drive. Additionally, UEFI can&#8217;t recognize NTFS device and you need to format your USB flash drive as FAT32, along with a GPT (GUID Partition Table) partition scheme instead of MBR partition scheme. You can make such a boot USB drive using <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/iso2disc.html\">ISO2Disc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, if you&#8217;re troubleshooting your Surface Pro tablet or resetting forgotten Windows 8 password, you&#8217;ll have to boot it from a USB flash drive. Here&#8217;s how you can boot your Microsoft Surface Pro tablet from a USB flash drive. How to Boot Microsoft Surface Pro from USB Flash Drive? Shut down your Microsoft Surface Pro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[1445,1446,1342],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-boot-from-usb-on-micrsoft-surface-pro","tag-boot-microsoft-surface-pro-from-usb","tag-boot-surface-pro-from-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}