This isn't a question of hardware limitations, but rather software restrictions. That does not mean that you can boot a full Windows installation from a USB device, on a Surface or anything else.

The Surface, like practically every PC made for the last several years, supports booting from a USB device. Click Finish:Ģ.13) Macrium will now write new boot records.It's important to distinguish between a) a device's capability to boot from a USB device, and b) the specific software on that USB device that you're trying to boot.

Boot menu will only be shown by default when there are two or more operating systems to choose.Ģ.8) Edit allows you to manually change the path to selected OS, and change Windows version in case it is recorded wrong:Ģ.9) If you think an OS (Windows installation) which should be present is not found, you can browse your PC to find correct partition ID letter:Ģ.10) When you have found the path to missing Windows installation, click Add to add it:Ģ.11) When all operating systems have been found, click Next:Ģ.12) Macrium shows the summary of operating systems found. If only one OS is found or left after ignoring all others, no boot menu will be shown after boot records have been fixed, Windows booting automatically to only available OS.

Selected OS will be ignored and not shown in fixed boot menu. Only two of these will be found by Macrium Rescue when selecting Fix Windows boot problems as shown in screenshot in step 2.6 because one of the four OS entries is a native boot VHD ( W10 PRO (VHD)), another ( W10 PRO (VMware)) being just a copy of my main OS entry ( W10 PRO (Hyper-V)) with different settings to allow me to run both Hyper-V and VMware virtualization programs on same PC, on same installation.Ģ.7) If you want to remove one of operating systems found, just select it and click Ignore: Macrium Rescue does not find operating systems installed on a native boot virtual hard disk, these you must add manually after boot issues have been fixed and you are able to boot to Windows desktop.Īlso if you have copied a boot menu entry of an existing physical Windows installation to be able to use the same OS installation with different settings, the copied boot entries will not be found and need to be manually added later.įor an example, see screenshot above in step 2.4 showing I have four OS entries in boot menu, in addition to Macrium Rescue.

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