
- #Create a usb recovery drive for microsoft surface using osx 64 Bit#
- #Create a usb recovery drive for microsoft surface using osx update#
#Create a usb recovery drive for microsoft surface using osx update#
In Windows 8.1 if I choose update and recover I can produce a bootable USB drive that will boot and recover my system to my copy of the original factory windows image so it appears a bootable USB can be created by Windows just not by Symantec System Recovery. I made one USB boot drive formatted for FAT32 and one for NTFS and neither works. I tried booting to this disk by starting my Surface Pro 3 while holding down the volume down button and it did not boot to the USB drive. The program then worked a while and stated I had successfully created a Custom Symantec System Recovery Disk. step is to create a PowerShell script that will do the actual drive mappings. I did not select to save a copy of the custom Symantec System Recovery Disk (ISO file) but I did select to skip Symantec System Recovery Disk Customization. intune onedrive macos Microsoft Intune is excited to support Apple in. I then selected to create a Symantec System Recovery Disk on DVD or USB device selecting my USB Sandisk Cruzer. If you do not have a Mac or borrow then create a virtual machine running macOS using one of the two links below depending on whether you are using Intel or AMD as your CPU/Processor.
#Create a usb recovery drive for microsoft surface using osx 64 Bit#
iso file on my hard drive that I made for the 64 bit Symantec System Recovery system that I made from v11.0.2 since the Surface Pro 3 does not come with a DVD/CD drive. To create a macOS flash drive installer you will first need either a. Up pops a welcome to the symantec system recovery disk wizard. In v11.0.2 I selected under tools to Create a Custom Symantec Recovery Disk.

I thought v11.0.2 was SSR 2013 R2 but I now suspect SSR 2013 R2 is newer (just came out this week?) and is release v11.1.0 in which case I may have to get the newer version if it will solve my problem. This is the Microsoft-recommended route to put Windows 10 on a USB drive, and for good reason.

I used Symantec System Recovery v11.0.2 which tech support said is compatible with Windows 8.1 and UEFI.
