(05-12-2021, 01:26 PM)king1 Wrote: not a surface but I had one that was set in bios to boot the actual boot drive, rather than the windows boot manager - not entirely sure if it should be able to boot from the drive itself under uefi, but when I set it to windows boot manager it was away laughing...I tried switching between windows boot manager and the drive itself but no luck.
you could try a rebuild of the bcd as well
I formatted the drive and reinstalled, but when it reboots after setup, it's back to square 1.
Im want to restore from a downloaded recovery image for the surface If I can get it to boot up again.
I might try resetting the BIOS again.