Samsung Surface 2.0 Rebuild

So I turned the table on last night and the input visualiser wasnt working. After rebooting a few times I tried to restore from the restore partition but this didn't fix the issue.

Going to perform a full image tonight and see if it fixes the issue. 

I have a feeling that it may have been due to working in a dark room but from past testing this has never been an issue.

Worst case scenario im going to take it apart and check the connections.

So Last night I brought my new SUR40 home and started to install the factory image. Samsung gave me the image in a WIM format, some bat and txt files, imagex, a winpe disk creator and a PDF instruction booklet.

I built the WinPE usb disk and since it was too small, transferred the necessary files to an external HDD.

On boot, I used diskpart and list volumes to determine the allocated drive letter of the external HDD.

Then I navigated to the folder and kicked off the bat file which starts the deployment. Thoughtfully, Samsung automated the whole process which results in a sysprep window allowing me to fully restore the out of the box experience.

About an hr later, I had a factory imaged SUR40 with the full touch functionality restored.

So on a previous SUR40 I was able to update it to the Windows 10 preview installing it over the Windows 7 OS. I was able to use the multi touch functions in the newer OS by copying the drivers from the C:\Windows\System32\Drivers folder in the old OS to the new one and it worked pretty well.

I tested installing Steam and ran it in big picture mode which really made good use of the touch interface. 

It worked well for strategy type games such as DOW, red alert etc however I had to use an overlay to translate the touch inputs to mouse inputs to control the game well.

This unit is currently at a friends place so he can work on some of his own projects.