So I turned off the feature in power setting in Windows, restarted, now I'm in Linux and I can see the drive. Thanks! I didn't know that about the newer windows.
So I installed a new copy of windows 8 from the recovery usb. It seemed to work but I couldn't activate windows! It turns out I think I installed Windows 8 and not Windows 8 Pro. I am downloading the pro ISO now, and will use the product key that the script below got me:
Set WshShell =...
So I would definitely be interested in restoring the Windows bootoader on the surface pro. I use this for work, so I do need to have Windows running.
Regarding the product key, the surface does have some info on the bottom side, but no product key.
Ok, SO.... I got busy and couldn't update but there is where I'm at.
I left the surface pro at the office. I came home and tried to dual boot my PC, and now I think I know the correct way of fixing my surface back at the office with two caveats:
1. I'm going to try and repair my surface with a...
I also tried this from terminal in Ubuntu:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
and
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &)
but got an error also. I'll try again and post the error.
I installed latest version of Ubuntu on my surface pro 3 running Windows 8. I am new to Linux so I. wanted to start learning a new OS.
I followed instructions online, created the correct partitions, and Ubuntu was installed successfully. The problem is I can't load Windows 8 anymore. I am...