Note: This step should only necessary if you are booting from USB media created by utilities such as Rufus. I connected a bootable USB drive created with Windows media using Rufus into the USB-A port.

Tip: If the Surface Laptop 4 is booting to the first screen of Windows OOBE (Out Of Box Experience) you can press Left shift, and F10 and issue the following command to shut the computer down cleanly. In other words it must be cleanly shutdown and not in a standby mode. Make sure it’s powered OFFīefore attempting this, keep in mind that the Surface Laptop 4 must be in a shutdown state (fully turned off) when trying to boot from media. If you created the media using Rufus then you’ll need to disable Secure Boot in the UEFI bios before attempting to USB boot otherwise the Surface Laptop 4 will ignore your attempts to boot from USB. Instead, the volume controls are actually on the keyboard function keys.ĭepending on how you create your USB bootable media, you’ll need to approach it differently. This was a little bit tricky as there are no ‘rocker’ volume buttons on the casing of this laptop as their are on other Surface Models. I wanted to capture the (Intel based) factory image from a Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 before testing the equipment, and to do so I had to figure out how to boot from USB.

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