Everything with arduino worked perfectly (compiling, i was able to turn on an led) but when I tried to upload i got "Serial port com1 not found." it told me to go to serial port, but it wouldn't let me change those settings, i assume that's because I only have one usb drive?
That's not how COM port assignments work.
Do you have the correct driver for the USB device you are connecting to?
Does Surface have the older Windows equivalent of Start:Settings:Control Panel:Device Manager:Ports that you can look into to see if your port is seeing the Arduino hardware?
I can access the Device manager. What should I do from there?