Device maintenance and repair
7.4 Installing the software
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Operating Instructions, 05/2017, A5E31347215-AB
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7.
Follow the on-screen instructions.
After a few seconds, you will see the "Install Windows" installation program.
NOTICE
Data deleted
All data, user settings and existing authorizations or license keys on drive C: are deleted
during the installation of Windows 7.
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Back up all data.
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Check the data and time in the BIOS setup, "Main" menu and correct the displayed
time if necessary.
8.
Now follow the instructions of the installation program "Install Windows". You will find
additional information in the operating system manual.
"Install Windows" installation program
The language of the installation program and the operating system you want to install has
been preset to English. You can change the language of the operating system after the
installation. You can find information on this in section: "Setting up the language selection by
means of the Multilanguage User Interface (MUI) (Page 95)".
You can set up partitions during the installation process.
The recommended minimum size for Windows 7 system partition varies, depending on the
amount of RAM and additional software that you are going to use. Information about the
partitioning of the data volume in the delivery state is available in the table below.
Windows 7 partitions in the factory state
Partition Name
Size of data medium
File system
<54 GB
>54 GB
>100 GB
First
Boot
100 MB
100 MB
100 MB
Automatically set up by installation pro-
gram
Second
System
40 GB
50 GB
100 GB
NTFS not compressed
Third
Data
Remain-
der
Remain-
der
Remain-
der
NTFS not compressed
Setting up the language selection by means of the Multilanguage User Interface (MUI)
You can set the display of menus, dialogs or other information, such as date and time, to a
different language. For this purpose, you can either select one of the preinstalled languages
or install a new language package.
The following command sequences are described in English. Depending on the default
setting, they can be displayed in another language.