These recovery features work amazingly, but as long you have the recovery installation media or if your system have a recovery image stored within. However, you’ll be able to recover only if the system’s hard drive is working and the image didn’t get corrupted. A while back, Microsoft released an official recovery image, but it was only made available because a faulty update bricked many Surface RT. Today Microsoft has a new support page for Surface that allows you to download a recovery image for any Surface tablet, including Surface RT, Surface 2, Surface Pro, Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2, and Surface Pro 3. Downloading a Surface recovery image from Microsoft doesn’t cost a thing, but there are few steps you have to follow.

How to download Surface recovery image

That’s all there is to it. Now you can use the Recovery Drive as a recovery image to either reset or refresh your computer. Microsoft has a set of instructions specifically to recover a Surface using a USB recovery drive.

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