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So I picked up a Surface Laptop 7th Edition the other week. You buy a business laptop and it has home on it, really! Not to worry, I have a Windows 11Ent ARM bootable USB... Simple, you'd think.
Rufus which works for All versions of Windows 11 and Windows Server didn't seem to want to make the drive bootable maybe because its the ARM processor although it should as it did with my Parallels VM on my Macbook Pro. Creating a Windows recovery drive and then copying the Windows 11 ISO to the USB drive seemed to do the trick, however both the keyboard and trackpad were unresponsive in the Windows Installer. Plugging in a USB keyboard, same experience, I've not tried with a USB mouse yet.
Creating a recover image from the Surface toolkit works, but that is 12.5 GB? why? and, as I had the hardware hash registered in Intune now it picked up that I wanted to use Windows 11 Pro
Then, once installed the storage used is showing 70GB, how? why? a clean install of Windows even with Office on is usually 20GB maybe 30GB if that!
A simple license upgrade and I was running Enterprise, what a flaff! I then did an intune reset which dropped the image down to about 50GB once back up. But still I would very much like to do my own CLEAN install of Windows directly from the ISO why does it appear that Microsoft hardware does not perform the simplest of tasks with the install of a Microsoft OS when all other hardware vendors it works as you'd expect.
I do not want any of the bloat ware that come pre-installed on any device, and always prefer to do my own install of the OS so I know what is on it. Please can someone point me where a clean install of Windows can be achieved on a Surface Laptop 7th Edition without using the toolkit, personally I think you shouldn't have to or be forced to use that.
Thanks
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It looks like trying different keyboards or mice is the only option here.
I tried the Logitech G502 Hero, but it didn't work. However, the Keychron M6 worked and allowed me to continue with the installation. There was an OOBEREGION error during installation, but I ignored it. Even after Windows finished installation and booted into the desktop, the keyboard and touchpad didn't work, but installing the driver package fixed everything.