

When a white cursor is displayed on top left of screen, release these buttons.Built in media creation options for USBs and DVDs. Tool includes: File formats optimized for download speed. Press and hold the Windows (bezel) and Volume Up button. To learn how to use the tool, go to the Installing Windows 10 using the media creation tool page.When the Surface logo appears, release these buttons.Press and hold the Power and Volume Down button.From here the procedure for booting from a USB is specific to your device model so you may need to look this up yourself.īelow are known instructions for common models to boot off USB. RT devices are not fussy about booting from a USB so there is no need to mark it as bootable and it doesn't matter whether you're using GPT or MBR partition tables. To use this tool just extract contents to a FAT32 formatted USB drive. An uninstall option for undoing the unlock is often also excluded. This is perhaps convenient for average users but annoying if you do not have a working Windows installation. I put this together because the commonly distributed Golden Key unlock is in the form of a batch script which adds SecureBootDebug.efi to your main drive BCD so that it is ran when you reboot. You can read more about it in GOLDENKEYS.MD. The 'Golden Keys' unlock (CVE-2016-3287 / CVE-2016-3320) discovered by allows bypassing the SecureBoot mechanism which prevents loading code not signed by Microsoft. This package allows you to install (or uninstall) the 'Golden Keys' unlock on a Windows RT device using only a USB drive. An updated version of this tool can be found from the Open Surface RT group:
