This will allow Surface to search for an alternate device to boot from aside from your SSD.

Select Yes to save the configuration and restart Surface.

Select Configure Alternate System Boot Order.

Surface Pro 1 and Surface Pro 2: Skip to Step 9 below.

Surface Pro 3 and Surface 3: Go to Step 5 below.

Surface Pro 4, Surface Book and Surface Studio: Go to Step 13 below.

Continue holding the volume-up button until the Surface or Windows logo no longer appears on the screen.

With the volume-up button held down, press and release the power button.

Once Surface has turned off, press and hold the volume-up button.

Here’s how to configure the boot order on Surface so the USB drive is the first option.įor info on using the UEFI on your Surface, see How do I use the BIOS/UEFI? This requires you to make changes in the UEFI. Once your USB drive is set up as a bootable drive with an appropriate operating system on it, you’ll need to set up your Surface to boot from this drive. This might help, copied from the Microsoft Support site :) Configure your Surface to start from a USB device So far, I haven'T heard of anyone doing this with ATI 2018. Just beginning to wonder, that all these success stories (see link above), including my own one, are related to ATI2016 & MVP package.

In all cases I can see that the USB stick is being accessed and then we go on to boot from C:īefore I go and try the current MVP package: would that make sense at all, or is this depending on ATI 2018 as well ? In which case it's probably futile. Boot into the UEFI bios, turn secure mode off, double-check that USB is first in the boot sequence and then restart the systemĢ.power the system off and go directly into boot from USB mode by pressing and holding down Volume - and power keys

With both of them I tried to boot in 2 ways:ġ.

) I made a point of formatting them properly, not just quickformat, and put the ATI 2018 rescue builder on both of them. With 2 different USB sticks, one proper one and one MicroSD-SD-USB adapter (yes, that's what worked for me the last time, believe it or not. ATI 2018 produces a stick that is NON-BOOTABLE - at least not on my system and in my configuration !

Attempting boot from usb device