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>Creation of a recovery drive for a Snapdragon-based Surface (which you have to do from a working Snapdragon-based Surface) requires typing your serial code into a Microsoft website, then downloading a .zip of drivers that you manually overwrite onto the recovery media that Windows 11 creates for you.

That's just creation of a recovery drive for anything that Microsoft itself makes. It's the same process for the Intel Surface devices too.

>no Media Creation Tool

Why would anyone care about that? Most actively avoid Microsoft's media creation tool and use Rufus instead.



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