Surface 4 Network boot and Image
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No dice there either
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@Psycholiquid What if you use exit?
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@Tom-Elliott Trying it now.
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@Tom-Elliott Back to Chainloading failed
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@Psycholiquid what if you remove the network stuff?
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@Tom-Elliott network stuff?
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@Psycholiquid Yeah, have it boot without being plugged into the network.
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@Tom-Elliott I changed it to SANBOOT and it worked. Testing again to verify
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Excuse me I changed it to REFIND_EFI
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Yep that worked, but what is that?
I am assuming it is just finding the boot partition on the hardware EFI
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@Psycholiquid Yes. That’s why I suggested exit, but why is it trying to chainload?
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@Tom-Elliott No clue
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Testing capture and cloning now that I have most of the kinks worked out. Will report back.
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Arghhh, Surface EFI partition. I got it copying over but that was a pain. Recovery partition next.
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Can we do a summary of what’s been done so far that actually mattered? Have you successfully imaged yet? And, the Exit to HDD type that works is rEFInd ?
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@Wayne-Workman I have no successfully imaged yet, I am afraid that if I image it with my image it will not have the EFI partition nor the recovery partition. If that is needed by the device it might brick it and I will not be able to get back into it.
So this is what I am seeing as partitions:
I am not sure if there is a UEFI section on the board of the device or if it just reads everything off of the disk. If the latter is the case when I put my image on there it wont know what to do. So I am attempting to ad those partitions into my image before I move forward.
I am hoping that if something bad happens I could always just boot from a USB flash drive to reinstall but I am still researching.
This is the Partitioning of my image:
I just added the RAW partition. I have some software here I am going to try and replace it with the partition I pulled off with a quick image form that software. Unless someone has already hit this part and knows a way around it or how to do it correctly.
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http://www.windowsobserver.com/2014/05/21/recovering-from-a-bricked-surface-rt/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/2tpyf2/how_to_unbrick_your_surface_123/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/3qf9rp/sp4_bricked_after_running_windows_update/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/3fbp8o/completely_bricked_surface_pro_3/
https://redmondmag.com/articles/2013/10/21/microsoft-issues-recovery-software.aspx
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@Psycholiquid You might also take a RAW image first. RAW changes nothing on the drive.
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@Wayne-Workman yeah I have done just that with some other software so I would have physical access to it on a USB drive. I’m just trying to find out for sure weather or not I can just boot to a USB flash drive if I was to wipe out that EFI partition on accident
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@Psycholiquid I would think so, as the device’s firmware is what evaluates what devices can be booted from.
