pentiumspeed wrote on 2026-03-23, 22:41:

Did an accident on a Surface Pro 7, came in corrupted rendered unbootable, asked me to recover this tablet. Picked wrong recov […]
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Did an accident on a Surface Pro 7, came in corrupted rendered unbootable, asked me to recover this tablet. Picked wrong recovery image which turned out to be windows 10. I need to redo this using recovery image windows 11 but tablet keeps booting to windows 10 even boot order had USB stick selected first in the list to boot from, even USB stick did illuminate even I used power + volume down buttons. Is this possible to ruin the internal storage rendering blank again using quick dban erase?

Second, youtube and comments how to create recovery usb is out of date, brings up second question:

Another question: I followed this using recovery creation tool on the another computer (not on surface), and copied windows 11 recovery contents, note that this was for surface pro 7 recovery folder which I copied the content. The difference is towards the end of copy, asked me overwrite some files or not, selected overwrite. I don't know if this corrupted the recovery usb stick or not?

It is urgent because owner is asking repeatedly for few days. My boss kept bugging me to work on other items where I really need quality time with it. I repeatedly told boss that working on computer is very needy (really takes time), when working with windows stuff repair.

Thanks and cheers, Jason

Not exactly what you are asking for, but a possible alternative, maybe.

If the tablet is booting into Windows 10 successfully, would upgrading it to Windows 11 not be a potentially acceptable path of lesser resistance ?

pentiumspeed wrote on 2026-03-23, 22:41:

... Second, youtube and comments how to create recovery usb is out of date ...

I was recently given an older Surface (I think it's a Pro3) - Win10 - and I don't have recovery media for it.
Anything I need to know to create?

Can you confirm the win11 install USB is correctly created by booting it in another computer? Or try a different USB drive? It sounds like the surface is detecting the USB during boot but can't find a valid boot record