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Might be right, but scanning the sectors there was data of some sort there. A small amount of text in several places. Nothing identifying, but text it was. Also, I expanded the C: drive to use the reclaimed space so it will be an interesting feat to try and recreate it. But I will keep a casual...

:D Not anymore there isn't. As you mentioned, it was not normally seen in Drive Management, but it was when I looked this morning. So, went to my other laptop which also had it and used a Ubuntu thumb drive and GParted and removed it. It started and ran OK, so did the same to the Surface. So...

Nope and nope, what made you assume that?. Win8.1pro and pretty sure this is the correct forum as the issue is more specific to the Surface Pro 2 than just the OS-software. But, I too have been wrong before.

Hi, last week I noticed an extra Partition on the internal SSD. Not sure if it is normal or not. I have just done a full restore using the Media Recovery tool followed by 71 Critical updates and the extra partition is not there - yet. Could someone please right click the white-windows icon on...

Thanks, but made no difference. It looks to be a "feature" of the May Firmware update that there is a lock-screen Camera app. I have reinstalled clean win8.1 using the Media Creation USB drive. Create installation media for Windows 8.1 - Windows Help Then made sure I did not allow the May...

Hi All, I have a Surface Pro 2 with win8.1 all up to date. I have the display set to turn off after 30-minutes and the screen saver (Bubbles / Mystic) set at 15 minutes with the Login screen required. Most of the times when I come back and move the mouse or tap the keyboard, the camera app...

Probably the only thing that the freezer helped with was leaving it alone for a while. I say no more...

If you are hell bent on returning stuff, you will always find excuses. The charging comments are a joke if you thought you could charge at the same rate frim any charger. As to carrying around more chargers just get one that will charge at better than 2.1A and there are zillions of those for...

OK, we are here to help, so hang in there. All too often someone jumps in here with an issue and then throws the baby out with the bathwater, never to return. My first guess would be to make sue that you do not have Bluetooth power saving enabled. Touch+hold (same as Right-click mouse) the...

It would help greatly if you at least outlined what you have tried. I have what I am sure the answer is, but see no point writing stuff if you have tried it. Try to be constructive and objective when obtaining a solution.

People, the SP2pro is a tablet with a STANDARD USB-2 port! USB 2 ports provide 5vdc at 0.5 Amps USB 3 ports provide 5vdc at 0.9 Amps. Volts x Amps = Watts - do the Math. It amazes me that people think it's a USB port, this is a USB cable and that's a USB drive, just plug them inn an it must...

Anyone have file transfers between a phone and the SP2pro? I have a win8.1 phone with an aftermarket Qi receiver permanently plugged in to the USB and I'd like to be able to wifi/BT pictures from one device to the other. I set the BT on the phone and it found "SURFACE" I set the BT on the SP2...

Let me check on shipping costs (US to Finland) and you can have the one that came with mine. I hated the power cover, too heavy, would not fold all the way back properly. I bought the back-lit type cover and love it. Specially the back lighting. Stay tuned. {edit} Surface Pro 2, by the way.

Do a search on Amazon for reviews on third party warranty first. Not a pretty sight. :) Why bother with extending warranty? Since it has performed fine so long, it will almost certainly stay working unless you drop it or something. Very few extended warranties ACTUALLY cover drop damage...

Well, two things, the first is in the pics above, try reversing the cable so that the lead runs up towards the top of the screen in a sweeping arc instead of a direct bend as shown in both pics. Next, this is what I did to the connectors the first day I had them as I could see they the flaw in...

Let me go out on a limb here and generalize. Please place blame where blame it s due. It is NOT the SP2/3. That is only showing you what HAS happened, not what is causing it. IF you are using a hub or any USB-based attachment for connecting to the outside monitor it will almost certainly be...

@ahooper and @ScottyS The Key is in the complete sentence and not just the convenient gist. The keyword of the gist-less version is "JUST." On win7 and prior, it WAS a simple matter of installing another boot partition alongside as many as your HDD would stand. Hell, that's what XOSL was...

I don't mean to be too rude here, but you seem to be making decisions without complete understanding of the issues involved. I would strongly suggest you do the media install thing and stop trying to mess with dual boot. I am a retired programmer of 45+ years experience, with a Degree in...

You have made a mess and you are treading a dangerous path. If you have important stuff on the device, make sure you sign in with them msoft account. Make sure you also save your BitLocker key ONLINE with your msoft account. Make sure toi sync everything you can to your OneDrive account. Then...

People, try and learn what you are dealing with here. Do some research and I'll try and get you started. Do not defrag an SSD - actually Windows will know it's an SSD and only play at defrag, That's why @Haldi is now having an issue as he used a non-smart defrag tool. Next, you CANNOT just...