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    Default Surface tablet wont upgrade to windows 10

    Got a stange one here. My mate wants me to upgrade his surface tablet to windows 10.
    He got it from America quite a while ago, it has Windows RT 8.1 32 bit on it fully updated to that OS.

    When I goto the windows page and try and get the creationtool it says its not compatible for some reason and I have to goto the store.

    Any work arounds for this.

    cpu is ARM based and got 2 gig of memory with an Nvidia Tegra 3 gpu

    any help please?

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    Default Re: Surface tablet wont upgrade to windows 10

    I had very similar issue on another windows tablet (not surface). It was some kind of region issue. Even though at first it appeared that it was all set to UK I found some other setting that was set not as UK.
    This tablet came from Hong Kong so regions were set as a mixture of China, US & UK.

    Very vague I know but can't remember the exact setting I had to change. What might help is I came across the fix when googling for another issue which was the same fix. It was "why Cortana wouldnt enable on Windows 10" device. I remember it was same fix so maybe try googling that.

    Not the best answer I know :-)

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    Default Re: Surface tablet wont upgrade to windows 10

    Damm Microsoft pulled the plug on them
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/29492...september.html

    only a small update in September. My mate will be gutted

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    Default Re: Surface tablet wont upgrade to windows 10

    I have this tablet and managed to get it almost like Windows X with all the rt updates. It has a start button and essentially all the metro shit is gone.

    RT is dead though and no developers are making apps anymore. Only a matter of time before ms drop the store altogether.

    Shame they still won't let us jailbreak it as I like the tablet a lot. Great hardware and if I could run a few shitty apps on it id be totally happy.

    I use it for work as its good for office. Saves me having an office install anywhere else and syncs great with work one drive etc.


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    Default Re: Surface tablet wont upgrade to windows 10

    Quote Originally Posted by Mickey View Post
    Damm Microsoft pulled the plug on them
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/29492...september.html

    only a small update in September. My mate will be gutted
    That article is from 2015 Mickey.

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    Default Re: Surface tablet wont upgrade to windows 10

    come and gone lmao
    Anyhow I gave him it back. dumb fecker paid over £200 for it on ebay from the USA and then had to pay import duty

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    Default Re: Surface tablet wont upgrade to windows 10

    Quote Originally Posted by Mickey View Post
    come and gone lmao
    Anyhow I gave him it back. dumb fecker paid over £200 for it on ebay from the USA and then had to pay import duty
    haha had 64gig one & only paid £140 new from Microscrote, i got rid as RT will not upgrade to ten on it, i think you cant upgrade any rt to windows 10 ?.

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