Second Obstacleīooting the Surface Go from the USB boot disk was easy the computer was configured to check USB first, so it flowed cleanly into the install. At the end of those instructions, I had a bootable USB disk that I could use to install Windows 10… or so I thought. After lots and lots of false starts, I found these instructions that walked me through downloading a Windows 10 64-bit ISO, formatting the USB disk as GPT:FAT32, and copying the ISO files over (including the step where I had to split one of the files that was larger than 4 GB so it’d fit on a FAT32 filesystem). Microsoft has a built-in “ Recovery Media Creator”, but that only works if you have a working Windows machine and all I had to hand was a Mac. That led me to the first problem: how to make a Windows 10 USB boot disk. Neither worked and neither told me why not, so I decided to go with a clean reinstall. ![]() I first tried using the built-in recovery environment to “reset” and “recover” the operating system.
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