How to Reset Surface Pro

Summary: This post illustrates how to reset Surface Pro, hard reset Surface Pro, and factory reset Surface Pro with or without the recovery key from m3datarecovery.com.

Summary on resetting Surface Pro with or without recovery key

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How to perform a hard reset after forgetting your Surface Pro password? Follow below solutions to factory reset Surface Pro 4/3/2 tablet without either password or Windows installation disc.

How to factory reset Surface Pro with recovery key

Factory reset is also called hard reset. Here is how to hard reset Surface Pro to its factory resetting:

Step 1: Start your Surface Pro tablet. From the Windows login screen, click the Power icon at the right corner, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and then click the Restart option.

Step 2: Wait for Surface Pro to restart. You'll see the "Choose an option" screen, click "Troubleshoot".

Step 3: On the next screen, click the "Reset your PC" option. You can choose to factory reset Surface Pro with or without keeping all your files and apps.

Step 4: Enter the recovery key.

You can refer to How to find 48-digit BitLocker recovery key for Surface Pro?

Step 5: Follow the wizard to complete Surface factory reset process.

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How to reset Surface Pro without BitLocker recovery key

Formatting is the only way to reset Surface Pro without BitLocker recovery key.

Step 1: On the BitLocker recovery screen, press Esc for more BitLocker recovery options on Surface.

BitLocker recovery screen - press Esc

Step 2: Preparing Bitlocker recovery, then select Skip this drive at the right corner.

BitLocker recovery screen - skip this drive

Step 3: On the next screen, select Troubleshoot.

Step 4: On the Troubleshoot screen, select Advanced options.

Step 5: On the Advanced options screen, select Command prompt.

Step 6: From the WinRE command prompt, manually type the commad: list disk and press Enter.

List disk with diskpart command

Step 7: Type select disk 0 command and press Enter.

Select disk with diskpart command

Step 8: Type list volume command and press Enter.

List volume with diskpart command

Step 9: Type select volume 1 command and press Enter.

Select volume with diskpart command

Step 10: Type format fs=ntfs label=volume label quick and press Enter to execute the format.

Format volume with diskpart command

When the format completes, your Surface Pro has been reset. Then you can install Windows 10 on it.

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Yuri Zhang

Yuri, a chief writer at M3 Software, has excelled at computer-related expertise in Windows, BitLocker, macOS, data security, disk management, and other cyber-knowledge. She is overwhelmed with joy by outputting specialized content, and she will keep going in the career of a pro-editor and help computer users to the greatest extent.