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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 (flash memory drive) may
be broken.
The recovery partition is deleted.
<Only for Windows 7 downgrade model>
To change OS from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, or vice versa.
NOTE
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To change the OS from 32 bit to 64 bit or vice versa, the recovery partition must
be used to install the OS. Therefore, the recovery partition must still exist on the hard disk in
order to perform this operation.
Preparation
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Change to the laptop mode.
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Prepare the following items:
• Recovery Disc (
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Reference Manual
“Recovery Disc Creation Utility”)
• USB DVD drive (optional) (refer to recent catalogs and other sources for information
about the products available)
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Remove all peripherals (except for the USB DVD drive).
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Connect the AC adaptor and do not remove it until installation is complete.
1
Connect the DVD drive to the USB port.
2
Start the Setup Utility.
A
Display “Charm”, and click - [Change PC settings] - [Update and recovery] - [Recovery].
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.
3
Write down all of the contents of the Setup Utility and press
F9
.
At the confirmation message, select [Yes] and press
Enter
.
4
Check the [UEFI Boot] setting of the Setup Utility.
[UEFI Boot] should be set to as follows.
When the recovery disc for Windows 8.1 is used: [Enabled]
When the recovery disc for Windows 7 is used: [Disabled]
5
Set the Recovery Disc into the DVD drive.
6
Press
F10
.
At the confirmation message, select [Yes] and press
Enter
.
Computer will restart.
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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.
8
Select the [Exit] menu, then select your DVD drive in [Boot Override]
and press
Enter
.
The computer will restart.
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