Microsoft today pushed out a new Windows Insider Preview Build 16291 for PC users in Fast Ring. The company also provided a workaround for Surface Pro 3 who complained of having issues installing Preview builds on their devices.
Microsoft Engineer, Jason Howard in the Blog Post has provided a work around for Surface Pro 3 users who are facing issues installing the builds on their devices. Jason explained that the workaround pertains to users with Surface Pro 3 devices with build 16288.1 or 16291.
Below are the steps penned by Jason Howard as a workaround:
- Prepare a bootable USB image from a working PC.
- With the device powered off, boot your Surface Pro 3 device from the USB drive.
- When the Windows setup box appears, press Shift + F10.
- In the Command Prompt window that appears, type: wpeutil reboot.
- Hit enter to execute this command and immediately remove the USB drive from the computer.
- The device will reboot and load the Windows OS as expected.
The above steps are workaround for Surface Pro 3 users to boot back to Windows 10 Operating System. There are also some advanced steps which have been recommended to permanently fix the issue.
- Open a web browser and navigate to aka.ms/fixsp3ec.
- Download the file: fixsp3.zip.
- Open File Explorer on your PC and navigate to the Downloads folder.
- Downloads is the default folder, it may be different if you have changed your default location.
- Right-click the file fixsp3.zip and select extract all.
- A window will open after extraction. Right-click the file fixsp3.cmd and choose Run as Administrator.
- The process will execute and implement the necessary patch to prevent this bug from recurring.
- Reboot your Surface Pro 3 device. It is now fully patched.
If Surface Pro 3 users are not willing to go through the above process, then Microsoft has already got a permanent fix for the issue which will be made available in the next flighted build to be released soon with version 16294 or higher.
If any of our Surface Pro 3 users have already encountered the issue, then make sure to check the workaround above and let us know if it fixes the issue in the comments below.
