To get the image, you will need your Surface Pro 3 serial number, which is written in tiny gray text on the slightly lighter gray Surface Pro 3 kickstand. This image will be used to create a special recovery drive-it requires a 16 GB USB flash drive-that includes everything that is normally on a USB recovery drive plus the recovery files that are normally accessed from the Surface Pro 3 disk. Microsoft makes a Surface Pro 3 recovery image available for download: this is critical for restoring your device back to its factory fresh state if everything goes wrong and the on-device or USB-based recovery tools are unavailable for some reason. Download the Surface Pro 3 recovery image and create an uber recovery drive ![]() Make sure you have an 8 GB or bigger USB flash drive, and leave the option “Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive” selected. Here’s how: Use Start Search, look for recovery and choose “Create a recovery drive” from the results. If you own a Surface Pro 3, you should do this now and keep it in an easily accessible location. ![]() ![]() Here’s the 8 GB version ($5.50) and here is the 16 GB version ($7.50). I recently purchased a few Kingston Data Traveler 3.0 USB flash drives because you can write on them with a sharpie, and they’re not at all expensive. You will need at least one 8 GB flash drive (preferably two) and one 16 GB flash drive to create the recovery disks described below. So before getting to dual-booting, I wanted to quickly document the ways in which you can prepare to recover your Surface Pro 3 no matter what happens. But while investigating this topic I ran into a number of issues that are somewhat unique to Microsoft’s tablet. ![]() I’ll be publishing a guide to dual-booting Surface Pro 3 with Windows 10 soon.
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