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Booting a Surface Laptop from a USB Drive can be a little frustrating if you didn’t follow its specific procedure especially when your device can’t boot to Windows. In this article, we have everything you need to know to boot your Surface Laptop from a USB Drive.

To boot a Surface Laptop from a USB drive, insert a bootable USB drive to the Surface Laptop’s USB port. On the keyboard, press and hold the volume down media key (F5 or F3), while holding, press and release the power key. When the Surface logo appears, release the volume down media key (F3 or F5).

Read on for a more in-depth guide on how to boot your Surface Laptop from a USB Drive.

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Note Starting from Surface Laptop 3, Microsoft has changed some keyboard’s layout including a volume down media key from F5 to F3 key position. These instructions apply to Surface Laptop (1st Gen), Surface Laptop 2, and Surface Laptop 3.

Why Boot Surface Laptop From A USB Drive?

There are several reasons that you need to boot your Surface Laptop from a USB Drive.

1. Resetting your Surface Laptop with a USB Recovery Drive.
2. Fresh Windows Installation.
3. Running Windows To Go.
4. Installing or running Linux based OS (Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, …).
5. Loading bootable recovery or disk partition tools.

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Surface Laptop Boot From A USB: Preparation

Before proceeding to the next step, here are some preparations you need to do before booting your Surface Laptop from a USB Drive.

1. Bootable USB Drive
   It’s important that you have a proper bootable USB Drive. In case you want to reset your Surface Laptop with a recovery drive, you will need to download the recovery image for your Surface and create a recovery drive before you can boot it up on your Surface Laptop.
2. Disable Secure Boot
   Secure Boot blocked all third party boot loaders from booting off your Surface devices. Disable Secure Boot lets you load third-party OS other than Windows 10 that’s included older versions of Windows and Linux on your Surface Laptop. Here’s how to disable secure boot on Microsoft Surface Laptop.
3. Backup Your Data
   Save yourself later by backing your important data to an external hard drive.
4. Connected to the Charger
   To prevent any unexpected shutdown during installation, make sure you have connected your Surface Laptop to an external power source.

Surface Laptop Boot From A USB: When Surface Laptop is Off

1. Shut down your Surface Laptop.
2. Insert your bootable USB or recovery drive to the Surface Laptop’s USB port.
3. Press and hold the Volume Down button on your Surface Laptop, then press and release the Power button.
4. When you see the Surface logo screen appear, release the Volume Down button.
   

Surface Laptop Boot From A USB: When Surface Laptop is On

There is an easier way to boot your Surface Laptop from a USB drive when you can sign-in to Windows 10. Here is how to do that:

1. Open Windows Settings
   First, you need to access Windows Settings by going to Start and click the Gear icon (or by using Win + I shortcut key).
2. Go to Update & Security
   In Windows Settings, select “Update & Security“.
   
3. Go to Recovery
   On the left side of the settings, select Recovery.
   
4. Restart your Surface in Advanced Startup
   Under the “Advanced startup” section, click Restart now to restart your Surface in an advanced startup mode.
   
5. Select Use a device
   After your Surface Laptop restarted, you will see a blue screen with the following options. Select Use a device.
   
6. Select USB Storage
   In this screen, it will list all possible ways and connected storage devices. Select USB Storage.
   

Now your Surface Laptop will reboot from your connected USB drive.

Surface Laptop Boot From A USB: With No Password

There so many times that users might want to reset their Surface Laptop when they forgot the account password that prevents them from login. Here is how to do that on the Surface Laptop with touch-only or with a keyboard.

1. Open On-Screen Keyboard (for touch-only)
   On the Windows login screen, Go to the Ease of access icon stay right next to the power icon. Select On-Screen Keyboard.
   
2. Press and hold Shift Key
   On Surface Type Cover, press and hold the Shift key (on the On-Screen Keyboard, just click the shift key and it will hold by itself).
3. Go to Power > Restart
   On the right-bottom of the screen, click the power icon, and select Restart. It will reboot your Surface Laptop in advanced startup mode.
   
4. Select Use a device
   After your Surface Laptop restarted, you will see a blue screen with the following options. Select Use a device.
   
5. Select USB Storage
   In this screen, it will list all possible ways and connected storage devices. Select USB Storage.
   

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