If you’re having trouble with the recovery options on your Surface, you’ll need to download these files to get it working again. 

Note: If you're an IT admin, managing Surface for Business devices in your organization, see Recovery tool (Surface IT Toolkit) for another way to restore a supported Surface device to its factory state.

Before you start 

Your Surface comes with Windows recovery info that you can use to refresh your Surface or reset it to its factory condition. Always try to do that first before downloading a recovery image. 

To learn more, see the links below.

What you need 

To download the recovery image, you’ll need a USB drive.  

Before you download a recovery image, format your USB drive to FAT32.

To download a recovery image, please sign in with your Microsoft account

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