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    Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB

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    • gjacobseG
      gjacobse
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      Okay,.. I see what psexec is suppose to do, and I can do some things. however anything that requires elevated rights fails.

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      • gjacobseG
        gjacobse
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        So for giggles I decided to look in the c:\users\ folder to see what was there. Just so happens there are a number of users on this system. Including our NTG account. And two _UserName% where I tried to fix the profile issues.

        Renamed the _NTG$ account and signed in,... albeit with a temp profile, but this gives me more access.

        Back up and off to PC Settings to kick this puppy.

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        • gjacobseG
          gjacobse
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          Restart / Refresh started... Now int the hands of @art_of_shred and @Minion-Queen until it's back online

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          • Minion QueenM
            Minion Queen
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            Restart/Refresh didn't work 😞
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            • Minion QueenM
              Minion Queen
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              Downloaded a fresh install of Windows 8.1 and of course now the darn think wont boot to USB 😞 no matter what I do.

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403 @Minion Queen
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                @Minion-Queen said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                Downloaded a fresh install of Windows 8.1 and of course now the darn think wont boot to USB 😞 no matter what I do.

                bahahaha [self-moderated] ing Microsoft. ..

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                • Minion QueenM
                  Minion Queen
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                  Oh yeah this surface is a piece of CRAP!!

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Minion Queen
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                    @Minion-Queen said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                    Oh yeah this surface is a piece of CRAP!!

                    THIS Surface? You mean, ANY Surface.

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                    • Minion QueenM
                      Minion Queen
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                      This one is worse than the others believe me.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender
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                        has anyone called MS yet? It's an MS product - I would hope you could get some sort of support like calling Dell on Dell equipment.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                          @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                          has anyone called MS yet? It's an MS product - I would hope you could get some sort of support like calling Dell on Dell equipment.

                          Um.... what? Call MS for Support? That's not something that MS does.

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                            @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                            has anyone called MS yet? It's an MS product - I would hope you could get some sort of support like calling Dell on Dell equipment.

                            Um.... what? Call MS for Support? That's not something that MS does.

                            This is hardware - I'm assuming it comes with at least a one year warranty. You're going to tell me that the Surface Pro line has worse support than crappy ol' Asus junk?

                            Granted you might be outside your one year warranty, but there should still be someone to contact.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                              @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                              @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                              has anyone called MS yet? It's an MS product - I would hope you could get some sort of support like calling Dell on Dell equipment.

                              Um.... what? Call MS for Support? That's not something that MS does.

                              This is hardware - I'm assuming it comes with at least a one year warranty. You're going to tell me that the Surface Pro line has worse support than crappy ol' Asus junk?

                              I can't believe that you find that surprising. You expect MS to provide support better than Asus? Asus is high quality stuff, MS is famous for being a "no support that you don't pay extra for" company and their Surface line is famous for being total consumer crap. I'm not saying that MS doesn't offer support, I'm saying that I can't think of any device less likely to get support than an MS one.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                This is hardware

                                I'm unclear of the implication. Isn't the majority of Surface issues in software?

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                  @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                  This is hardware

                                  I'm unclear of the implication. Isn't the majority of Surface issues in software?

                                  The issue the OP is having isn't software though, it's hardware - they can't get it to boot from a USB stick.

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                    @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                    @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                    has anyone called MS yet? It's an MS product - I would hope you could get some sort of support like calling Dell on Dell equipment.

                                    Um.... what? Call MS for Support? That's not something that MS does.

                                    This is hardware - I'm assuming it comes with at least a one year warranty. You're going to tell me that the Surface Pro line has worse support than crappy ol' Asus junk?

                                    I can't believe that you find that surprising. You expect MS to provide support better than Asus? Asus is high quality stuff, MS is famous for being a "no support that you don't pay extra for" company and their Surface line is famous for being total consumer crap. I'm not saying that MS doesn't offer support, I'm saying that I can't think of any device less likely to get support than an MS one.

                                    I'm glad you've had good experiences with ASUS, I haven't. I had one of their UX ultrabooks. At 12 months it stopped powering on, warranty was days over the 1 year.. now I had a turd for a device and no offer of assistance to fix it. Online searches showed this to be a known issue.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                      @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                      @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                      @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                      has anyone called MS yet? It's an MS product - I would hope you could get some sort of support like calling Dell on Dell equipment.

                                      Um.... what? Call MS for Support? That's not something that MS does.

                                      This is hardware - I'm assuming it comes with at least a one year warranty. You're going to tell me that the Surface Pro line has worse support than crappy ol' Asus junk?

                                      I can't believe that you find that surprising. You expect MS to provide support better than Asus? Asus is high quality stuff, MS is famous for being a "no support that you don't pay extra for" company and their Surface line is famous for being total consumer crap. I'm not saying that MS doesn't offer support, I'm saying that I can't think of any device less likely to get support than an MS one.

                                      I'm glad you've had good experiences with ASUS, I haven't. I had one of their UX ultrabooks. At 12 months it stopped powering on, warranty was days over the 1 year.. now I had a turd for a device and no offer of assistance to fix it. Online searches showed this to be a known issue.

                                      Asus makes the bulk of commercial machines.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                        @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                        @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                        This is hardware

                                        I'm unclear of the implication. Isn't the majority of Surface issues in software?

                                        The issue the OP is having isn't software though, it's hardware - they can't get it to boot from a USB stick.

                                        How do you know that that is hardware?

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                                        • DashrenderD
                                          Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                          @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                          @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                          @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                          This is hardware

                                          I'm unclear of the implication. Isn't the majority of Surface issues in software?

                                          The issue the OP is having isn't software though, it's hardware - they can't get it to boot from a USB stick.

                                          How do you know that that is hardware?

                                          LOL - really? well of course it's software, there is software in the hardware that's not working right - i.e. you press the volume down button while booting - you're suppose to get the option to boot to USB, but it just skips it.. OK that's software. 🙂

                                          In any case, that's something the hardware manufacturer should be willing to help you resolve.

                                          Now I'm the one wondering if I'm talking another language. Sure I know that you think MS doesn't/hasn't/won't/can't/whatever word you want to use, provide support to end users - but this is a piece of hardware no different from a Dell Laptop. I would expect, no I DO expect some form of support for this hardware akin to what Dell provides (even at the lowest level, non elite) from MS on this hardware.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                            @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                            @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                            @Dashrender said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB:

                                            This is hardware

                                            I'm unclear of the implication. Isn't the majority of Surface issues in software?

                                            The issue the OP is having isn't software though, it's hardware - they can't get it to boot from a USB stick.

                                            How do you know that that is hardware?

                                            LOL - really? well of course it's software, there is software in the hardware that's not working right - i.e. you press the volume down button while booting - you're suppose to get the option to boot to USB, but it just skips it.. OK that's software. 🙂

                                            In any case, that's something the hardware manufacturer should be willing to help you resolve.

                                            How is that different than when there is a software issue and you have to support it yourself? I don't see how hardware is magic here. Why would MS support a software issue when you buy hardware and not when you buy software?

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