my roommate's new Microsoft Surface Hub is running a wacky version of Windows 10 that popped up a "You need to download something from the store to support this file!" message when I tried to run a win64 exe.
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also if it turns out Microsoft has somehow broken USB floppy drive support on this 9k$ paperweight I'm going to drive up to redmond with a hammer and take apart their HQ brick by brick
okay I was wrong, it doesn't just need a 3kb certificate file, you have to use another app to build a DFI update image from that.
so it needs a 15kb file
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okay I was wrong, it doesn't just need a 3kb certificate file, you have to use another app to build a DFI update image from that.
so it needs a 15kb file
The file is on a disk now
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The file is on a disk now
And I've got an iMac flavored floppy drive to read it with
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And I've got an iMac flavored floppy drive to read it with
And we're installed! Apparently the UEFI on this thing does indeed support USB floppies!
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And we're installed! Apparently the UEFI on this thing does indeed support USB floppies!
Dang it. The floppy was fine, but it's not happy with my 32gb usb drive
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Dang it. The floppy was fine, but it's not happy with my 32gb usb drive
huh. I was looking at the UEFI settings and they put "occupancy sensor" under "Radio".
It's not a camera? -
huh. I was looking at the UEFI settings and they put "occupancy sensor" under "Radio".
It's not a camera?there's a recovery image from Microsoft I'm downloading through the Windows 11 Tool but it's downloading at like 0.1 millibytes per slow
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there's a recovery image from Microsoft I'm downloading through the Windows 11 Tool but it's downloading at like 0.1 millibytes per slow
tried again, and I think it finally stalled out at 20.39gb of 22.16gb
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tried again, and I think it finally stalled out at 20.39gb of 22.16gb
that was like two hours of downloading ;_;
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that was like two hours of downloading ;_;
and there's no resume
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and there's no resume
"If the device was unplugged or experienced an abrupt power outage or pulled power cord, wait at least 15 seconds before attempting to boot from USB."
what?
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"If the device was unplugged or experienced an abrupt power outage or pulled power cord, wait at least 15 seconds before attempting to boot from USB."
what?
does the USB stack not come up in the first 15 seconds of power on?
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does the USB stack not come up in the first 15 seconds of power on?
AHHHHHHH IT STOPPED AT 21 OF 22GB
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AHHHHHHH IT STOPPED AT 21 OF 22GB
I finally got a version of the recovery disk downloaded, and it boots.
It tries to recover to a version of windows 10 that's not terribly useful, but I think now that I have a working recovery disk, I can munge that disk into a windows 11 recovery disk -
I finally got a version of the recovery disk downloaded, and it boots.
It tries to recover to a version of windows 10 that's not terribly useful, but I think now that I have a working recovery disk, I can munge that disk into a windows 11 recovery diskhey microsoft you could have made this migration go a lot smoother if you'd just told your recovery-image-generating-tool how to make win11 disks
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hey microsoft you could have made this migration go a lot smoother if you'd just told your recovery-image-generating-tool how to make win11 disks
wait can I just lie to it that I have a Surface Hub 3 and it'll do that?
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wait can I just lie to it that I have a Surface Hub 3 and it'll do that?
NOPE it tries to give me MTR
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NOPE it tries to give me MTR
updating this thing is mainly a nightmare because the only updates I've managed to at all get working are the ones from the Surface IT Tool and it can't download most of the images because microsoft is storing the images on a server that someone reboots every 10 minutes or something
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updating this thing is mainly a nightmare because the only updates I've managed to at all get working are the ones from the Surface IT Tool and it can't download most of the images because microsoft is storing the images on a server that someone reboots every 10 minutes or something
microsoft, you know that resuming HTTP downloads has been a solved problem since, uh, 1997?
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microsoft, you know that resuming HTTP downloads has been a solved problem since, uh, 1997?
It's a 22gb file and it can go as fast as half a gigabit/s but it keeps just hanging at like 14gb in. Your only option is to cancel and try again, which starts from byte 0
