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Installing Software
Using Recovery Disc
Use the Recovery Disc in the following conditions.
You have forgotten the administrator password.
Installation is not complete. The recovery partition in the hard disk may be broken.
<Only for Windows 7 downgrade model> To change OS from Windows 7 to Windows 8, or vice versa.
NOTE
To change OS from 32 bit to 64 bit, or vice versa, install OS using the recovery partition in the hard disk.
Preparation
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Prepare the following items:
Recovery Disc (
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Reference Manual “Recovery Disc Creation Utility”)
DVD drive
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Remove all peripherals.
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Connect the AC adaptor and do not remove it until installation is complete.
1 Start the Setup Utility.
A
Display “Charm” and click
- [Change PC settings] - [General].
B
Click [Restart now] under “Advanced startup”.
C
Click [Troubleshoot] - [Advanced options] - [UEFI Firmware Settings] - [Restart].
Turn on the computer, and press
F2
or
Del
while [Panasonic] boot screen is displayed.
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If the [Panasonic] boot screen is not displayed, turn on the computer while holding down
F2
or
Del
.
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If the password is requested, enter the Supervisor Password.
2 Write down all of the contents of the Setup Utility and press
F9
.
At the conrmation message, select [Yes] and press
Enter
.
3 Check the [UEFI Boot] setting of the Setup Utility.
[UEFI Boot] should be set to as follows.
When the recovery disc for Windows 8 is used: [Enabled]
When the recovery disc for Windows 7 is used: [Disabled]
4 Set the Recovery Disc into the DVD drive.
5 Press
F10
.
At the conrmation message, select [Yes] and press
Enter
.
Computer will restart.
6 Press
F2
or
Del
while [Panasonic] boot screen is displayed.
The Setup Utility starts up.
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If the password is requested, enter the Supervisor Password.
7 Select the [Exit] menu, then select your DVD drive in [Boot Override].
8 Press
Enter
.
The computer will restart.
9 Click [Reinstall Windows] and click [Next].
10
At the conrmation message, click [YES].
11 At the License Agreement screen, click [Yes, I agree to the provisions above and wish
to continue!] and click [Next].
12 Select the setting and click [Next].
13 When the recovery disc for Windows 8 is used, click [Next].
When the recovery disc for Windows 7 is used, select the setting and click [Next].
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[Reinstall Windows to the whole Hard Disk to factory default.]
Select this option when you want to install Windows to the factory default. After installation, you can create a
new partition. For how to create a new partition, refer to “To change the partition structure”
(
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page 19).
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[Reinstall to the System and OS partitions.]
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Select this option when the hard disk has already been divided into several partitions. For how to create a
new partition, refer to “To change the partition structure” (
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page 19
).
You can keep the partition structure.
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This does not appear if Windows cannot be installed to the recovery partition and the area usable by Windows.
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