Maintaining and servicing your device
7.8 Installing the software
SIMATIC IPC677D
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Operating Instructions, 09/2014, A5E32995420-AC
Procedure
1.
If your device has no DVD drive, connect an external USB DVD drive to a USB port.
2.
Insert the Recovery DVD into the DVD drive.
3.
Reboot the device.
4.
Press the <Esc> key when the device boots and keep it pressed.
The BIOS selection menu is displayed when initialization is completed.
5.
Click the "Boot Manager" button.
6.
Select the optical drive using the cursor keys. It is identified by a "P" in front of the SATA
port number.
Example:
P5: DV-W28S-A
7.
Confirm the selection by pressing ENTER.
8.
Immediately press any key when you see the following prompt to install the operating
system from the Recovery DVD.
Press any key to boot from CD or DVD ..
After a few seconds, you will see the "Install Windows" installation program.
9.
Now follow the instructions in the installation program.
You can find additional information on this in the next section.
"Install Windows" installation program
The language of the installation program and the operating system is preset to English. You
can change the language of the operating system after the installation. Information on this
topic is available in the section "Setting up the language selection using the Multilanguage
User Interface (MUI)".
Setting up partitions and integrating storage controllers unknown to the operating system
You can set up partitions during the installation process and integrate storage controllers that
are unknown to the operating system. To do so, select "Custom (advanced)" when prompted
for the installation type in the "Install Windows" installation program.