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Useful Information
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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 flash memory may be broken.
Preparation
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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 DVD drive to the USB port.
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Start the Setup Utility.
Turn on the computer, and touch top left of the screen while [Panasonic] boot screen is displayed.
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If the [Panasonic] boot screen is not displayed, turn on the computer while touching top left of the screen.
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If the password is requested, enter the Supervisor Password.
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Write down all of the contents of the Setup Utility and touch [Exit] and double-touch
[Load Default Values].
At the confirmation message, touch [Yes].
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Check the [UEFI Boot] setting of the Setup Utility.
When the recovery disc for Windows 7 is used: [Disabled]
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Set the Recovery Disc into the DVD drive.
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Touch [Exit] and double-touch [Save Values and Reboot].
At the confirmation message, touch [Yes].
The computer will restart.
7 Press (Rotation lock) button while [Panasonic] boot screen is displayed.
The Setup Utility starts up.
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If the password is requested, enter the Supervisor Password.
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Touch [Exit], then double-touch your DVD drive in [Boot Override].
The computer will restart.
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Touch [Next].
10 Touch [Reinstall Windows.] and touch [Next].
11 At the License Agreement screen, touch [Yes, I agree to the provisions above and wish
to continue!] and touch [Next].
12 Select the setting and touch [Next].
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[Reinstall with HDD recovery partition.]
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tandard recovery method.
You can use recovery from Recovery Partition.
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[Reinstall without HDD recovery partition.]
Increase usable HDD size.
You can NOT use recovery from Recovery Partition.
W
hen this option is selected, you can no longer create Recovery Disc(s) after the recovery operation.
CAUTION
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Carefully choose above item because you cannot change it later.
13 Touch [Next].
14 At the confirmation message, touch [YES].
15 Select language and touch [OK].
To cancel the recovery procedure, touch [CANCEL], and touch the mark that appears at the top right corner
of the screen.
16 At the confirmation message, touch [OK].
Installation starts according to the instructions on the screen. (It will take approximately 60 minutes.)
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Do not interrupt installation, for example by turning off the computer.
Otherwise installation may become unavailable as Windows may not start up or the data may be corrupted.
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