You can create a USB recovery drive with Surface recovery image that downloaded from Microsoft Surface official site. Guide Steps Method 1: How to create a Surface USB recovery drive? Method 2: How to reinstall Surface with the USB flash drive Method 1: How to create a Surface USB recovery drive When you get a problem on your Surface tablet that just won't start or stop on the blue screen, you may need to get it start with a USB drive and reinstall Windows on it to solve the trouble.