Once this process is complete, follow the prompts and you are done. Go to the store and download, be warned though as it’s a 3ishGB image.Īfter you download the image, the installer will want to do another reboot where it will start to apply the update. ![]() When complete, it will want to be rebooted and after you log back in, you should be presented with the Windows Store “Get Windows 8.1 Preview for free” dialog. ![]() Select Open which will download and execute the installer. However, this Recovery Environment only recognizes Windows 10 for recovery, but what is in the USB is Windows RT 8.1. With the steps provided by Microsoft, we can setup an USB stick that boots into Windows Recovery Environment. The tablets cannot run regular Windows software and only software available in the 'Store' app. Microsoft only provides Recovery zip for Surface RT, which contains Windows RT 8.1. The instructions are fairly easy to follow – tap on “Get the update”, restart when prompted and following instructions.Ĭlicking on the update link will present you with a dialog to download the latest installer file for Windows RT. Both the Surface RT and Surface 2 run a re-compiled version of Windows 8.1 called 'Windows 8.1 RT'. The first thing you will want to do is head over to the preview site to grab the RT version of the installer. Microsoft have had the Windows 8.1 Preview available for a little while now so I decided to do a quick write up on how to install this onto your Surface RT tablet.
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