r/Surface•
ratshack

Does anybody have a link to the Surface Go drivers? *Or:* Why You Should Not Restore an SP4 Image to a Surface Go. *Or:* how to cripple your one day old Surface. *Or maybe even just:* MS, lulz

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I upgraded/exchanged my launch day SGo 4/64 for the 8/128 model. Macrium Reflect would not see the 64GB eMMc drive but sees the 128 just fine.

So I thought it would be nice to try my daily driver SP4 image because dialed in config and everything perfect.

Upon booting, it allows me to log in (complains about "can't turn on camera" but the PIN part of Hello worked.

Problem is it cannot see any external devices. No type cover, USB drives, microSD cards, nothing is seen and that includes the MS dock and it's ethernet port. USB Wifi dongle: nope. Not even a standard USB SSD, this thing only "sees" the touch screen.

I could add the drivers to my SP4 image and work it from there but thats when I discover that while MS references Surface Go drivers and images in multiple pages, they all link to the same page that includes all the Surface models... except Go.

I cannot even find a recovery image for this thing.

Anybody have any alternatives or suggestions?

Posted Aug 11, 2018, 7:06 PM UTC

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mskovrinskie•

Recovery instructions and image download for the Go can be found at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023512/surface-creating-and-using-a-usb-recovery-drive.

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lensfort•

"It looks like it's a..." puts on sunglasses "No go" YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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ratshackOPGo Go power Surface!•

lol, I went with a recovery image, Horatio. :-D

EDIT: no really, that pun was truly terrible. High Five!

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TimeTravel_98•

Have you run Windows Update?

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ratshackOPGo Go power Surface!•

I can't, no network driver

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