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I was looking forward to a full depth SD card slot. Unfortunately its not. It's about 2/3 SD size. We can definitely use an adapter for the uSD cards, but this limits the capacity. Only 200GB available now. Whereas full size SD come in much bigger capacities. :-( and are typically cheaper...

I have had the same issues. I am pretty sure that the problem is a very sensitive power button. Any slight movement in the pouch can activate the button. Then unit turns on. This may happen a few times during transit. Have not found a solution yet :-(

Thanks. How did you manage to separate the screen off and have it stay in connected standby. Usually it is Screen off = Sleep In the old days, you could tell PC - turn of screen after X minutes, NEVER sleep. I cannot find a way to do this in the SP3.

Well after trying these suggestions, it appears to me there is no answer? Did I miss something? I do not want the display on all night....even if its running a screen saver.

I have prodded in this forum and other places on the web, but could not find assistance. I want to set up the SP3 alarm clock, and have it ring to wake me up in the morning. I have tried with the unit plugged into AC, and on battery power. In both cases, it seems the SP3 is shutting down. I...

Ok, how about select multiple files using pen. normally using SHIFT-left button on mouse. How about emulating CTRL-left button on mouse. selecting files individual files.

I have found hard way that an SD card formatted with exFat on my iMac IS NOT the same as SD formatted on my windows machine. So i have gone back and formatted my USB drives using my windows PC. Formatting on Mac creates issues, and sometimes my windows machine cannot read it.

Yes, but the issue is that I dont have a windows 8.1 disk. I installed 8.0 then did the upgrade to 8.1. So I do not have disc for 8.1 :-(

They key though is that once the SP3 makes the recovery disk, everything is written over. So if it was bootable, its no longer. So somehow the making recovery disk program within windows needs to make the drive bootable.

No, only 1 partition.

I have 2 different sandisk brand. I have tried 16GB, and 32GB. I also have 64GB uSD card i put into a USB adapter. None of these boot up the SP3

Thanks. If one is to make a bootable USB, when using the make recovery disk function in windows, it reformats the USB (FAT32) but its no longer bootable. :-(

When i go through the process on the i5 to create a recovery USB drive it does so successfully. ~~~ however ~~~ It is not a bootable USB drive. When I instruct i5 to boot from USB device (it must boot this way in order to clear and re-install on drive C. It will not :-( So at that point...

On my original i5, I have tried restoring my image onto the same machine and always mess it up as when I tell it to refresh, it asks for a recovery disk. Once I create this image backup, it seems to mess up the going back to factory settings. While making the image I DO NOT tell it to remove...

My son dropped his Surface 1 RT which he has had for almost 1 year, and cracked the corner of the screen. He was able to get it replaced and upgrade to Surface 2 for minimal cost. So it seems to be a good plan.

Thanks....but outlook is not the only program. So it appears i can do outlook, but not the other items.

Looking through their website, it almost seems that you need to use the software when you have the old machine and the new machine. I don't have the old, all i have is an image on USB drive. Will it with with my scenario?

Yes, when I log in it will restore my metro apps. However I have many other things like software and network drive maps that I prefer not to do from scratch. One in particular is outlook with 6 different accounts

I gave my son my SP3 i5. Before i did, i made an image using the MS file history/image process. Can I restore this i5 image onto my i7 that i will get any day now?

My Amex was authorized at 11 AM today....with the I5 preorder the tracking information was posted same day credit card was authorized :-)