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The 7th-generation Surface Pro, released in October 2019. Available in platinum and black. Model number: 1866.

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Drive Swap? no back panel on my model

So i have a Surface Pro from a client, and because he acquired it from a previous job before they could disable the domain control (he didn't want to deal with them, bad employers, no it was not stolen thanks.)

And now I'm stuck with only the option to wipe the drive via physical removal. this model has no handy back panel to access the M.2 drive, are there any tutorials for opening one of these up to get the drive out? i am assuming this will be hellish.

Also I'm only assuming i have a surface pro 7. it's quite difficult to identify.

Any help would be appreciated.

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No need to take out the drive, just boot from an external disk, for example a Windows install drive and either run diskpart to clean the disk or use the Windows installer to delete all volumes.

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sir you are a gentleman and a scholar, that worked fantastic. kicking myself for not thinking of that. thanks so much.

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Theo will be eternally grateful.
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