Recent content by CZ Eddie

Yes, and then I sold that MS POS.

Okay, I finally found a way to make the USB stick bootable with a Windows OS on it. Create bootable USB for UEFI | Windows 8 content from Windows IT Pro Most USB boot sticks are formatted as NTFS, which includes those created by theMicrosoft Store Windows USB/DVD download tool. UEFI systems...

Well, my mistake. I tried booting to the Acronis boot media one more time and it did go through. Maybe the last time I didn't have the volume- button pressed properly. So now I know bootable USB is still able to work on some level. I guess I'll just keep trying different ways of building a...

Thanks. It's a good idea but I already ruled it out. I can't boot to *any* bootable ISO media. I can't even boot to the Acronis bootable USB that I used to wipe my partitions in the first place.

Just noticed your post... I'll look at it on my next work break. Thanks for the links.

I'm in IT and have my own MSDN account. So I have keys to all versions of Windows OS and access to the ISO downloads.

Surface Pro EFI BIOS doesn't ever give an option as cool (and normal) as that. Really wish I'd gone with a laptop instead of Surface Pro. It's so freakin limited. It is a fast tablet though.

Dangit, no creating the UEFI Bootable USB stick didn't give any different results. Ugh. When I boot up using volume- option to get boot menu, you can see the USB stick flash a few times. Then I get a sqiggly screen that blinks away after 1/8 of a second and it goes right into the EFI BIOS.

Doesn't matter if I can't boot to anything. Good question and that might be the problem. I actually just kicked off a new USB burn using an app called "Rufus" which will make UEFI bootable USB. Prior to that I used Microsoft's recommended "Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe". Which worked fine on my...

Thanks. But it's a Surface Pro Gen 1. The only BIOS options are: "trusted platform module enable/disable" and "secure boot control enable/disable". No other options are available in the system BIOS.

Hi, I used Acronis to delete all partitions on my Surface Pro. So there is no recovery, C drive, nothing at all. Just a blank SSD drive without any partitions. Now the Surface Pro refuses to boot to any of my USB sticks so I can clean install an OS like I wanted to do. I've verified both of...