As of today, the updater is still offline, and Microsoft has not provided any updated information about a fix or when the updater will return. But it has posted the Surface RT recovery image, which can be applied to a bootable USB drive and used to restore the device to its original shipping state (with Windows RT 8.0).
Yesterday, with very little fanfare, Microsoft released a Surface RT 8.0 recovery image, for North America only. For those with bricked North American Surface RT systems, the recovery image is good enough to let you boot into a DOS command prompt. Once you get to the prompt during the boot cycle, there's a series of eight commands you have to type into your Surface RT, to fix the file that was nuked by the Windows RT 8.1 online update. Microsoft has published a "simple" 17-step procedure for using the recovery image to fix your system and get RT 8.1 to work. Computer science degree not required, but it wouldn't hurt.
Surface RT Recovery Image (Windows RT 8.0) – North America
Download Zip: https://urlcod.com/2vI5Af
To get startting the job, you need to have a USB Flash drive with over 4GB of free storage and a PC running Windows 7/8. Once the recovery drive has been created, simply insert it into the USB port and then follow the instructions. The recovery image can be downloaded from the Microsoft website(Update).
The system image is an important file stored on a dedicated recovery partition to restore or reset your computer. The recovery image can be used as a restore point for your system. If your computer runs into problems like partition loss or system crash, the recovery image can help you revert the OS to its normal state.
Step 1. Make sure that your Surface is turned on and plugged in, and insert the USB drive into the ports before you start creating the Surface Pro recovery image. If possible, we recommend you use a USB 3.0 drive.
Step 6. Now, double click the recovery_rd.img folder you just downloaded, press Ctrl + A keys to select all the files inside the recovery image folder, right-click them and select Copy.
Once done, make sure you Safely eject the USB drive from the taskbar. Then you can boot your Surface from the USB recovery drive and perform a reset/refresh of your system with the image.
Where to download Surface recovery images? How to create a Surface recovery USB drive and use it to reset the Surface? All these answers have been illustrated in the given post. In addition, we also provide solutions to fix the Surface recovery USB drive not working issue.
If you have any other questions about the Microsoft Surface recovery image topic, please leave them down in the comment area. Well, you can send us an email via [email protected] when you have difficulty formatting the USB drive with MiniTool Partition Wizard. 2ff7e9595c
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