If your Microsoft Surface is stuck on a restart loop, or on the restarting screen, you may fix it by hard resetting your surface book. There are a few ways to reset your surface without having to log into windows.
you may either reset your surface or utilize the troubleshooter in WindowsRE if you don’t want to lose your data. In this article, let’s explore the ways to reset it.
Why is Surface Stuck on Restarting?
Your surface can be stuck on a restart loop due to a faulty update process. If you force your computer to turn off while the windows is updating in the background, it can corrupt boot files. This can cause the computer to get stuck on the restarting screen.
If yourcomputer keeps restartingwhen you boot it, it may be because of corrupt boot files. The fixes for this issue are listed below.
How to Fix Surface Restarting Loop?
There are limited options you may do to fix a computer stuck in a restart loop. As you can’t get to the windows interface, some generic fixes may not apply here. You can give these fixes a shot.
Soft Reset the Surface
Soft resetting will force your device to shut down completely and restart. It can also fix your windows stuck in a boot loop. Different versions of Surface have different ways to force a shutdown.
For models such as the Surface Book, Surface RT, Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2, Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro 4, Surface 2, and Surface 3, follow these steps to learn how to hard reset:
For any other models, try these steps to soft reset the PC:
Try Image Restoration
If your surface is still stuck in a restart loop, you may try completely resetting the surface or eitherrestoring it from a recovery image. You will need an image recovery drive for this process. You can make a recovery drive on another computer if available.
Here’s how you make a recovery drive.
After the copying process completes, eject the flash drive and follow these steps to boot your surface from this recovery drive.
