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jmone:
I should say, I'm really not worried about stuffing anything up on this PC, as I can always drop down another restore from the server or just do a clean Windows install. 

wer:
So you are configure with a GPT partition table, which means you have to have to have UEFI BIOS firmware to boot it.

You said you did a bare metal restore.  Is a GPT partition table what you intended and what you originally had?

I'm hesitant to tell you to go poking around in the BIOS to fix it, since I don't have a machine like that at the moment to guide you or check anything.

You're booting from your USB stick now, right?  If you remove it, are you able to boot in to the repair partition by using F8 or F3?

wer:
By the way, in the future I recommend you use Macrium Reflect instead.

jmone:
Yup. 
- Exactly the same make and model between the old and new (there may be under the hood changes but ??). 
- UEFI is the only option of the Surface IFAIK.
- I'd been backing up the Old Surface just fine (I can open the backups and extract documents etc)
- I built the restore key on the WS2016
- I used the restore key on the new Surface that then splatted down the image
- Yes I'm booting from a USB Stick with a Windows Install Image on it, then before the install, I go to repair --> Cmd prompt
- I "think" the PC boots into recovery as when I power it up without intervention it comes us on a Blue Screen called "Recovery" that then tells me it needs to be repaired with the error code.  and that "You'll need to use recovery tools, .....(like a disc or USB device).

jmone:
mmmm.  I found this quote "I have a feeling that you are trying to restore a UEFI/GPT initialized disk from the server, which is not fully supported by Essentials."

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