Maintenance and service
11.2 Reinstalling the software
SIMATIC Rack PC 840 V2
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Operating Instructions, Edition 05/2006, A5E00248055-04
If your hard disk is not set up yet, select
2. Boot for FDISK, FORMAT or Windows Setup
5. Confirm the
SIEMENS End User License Agreement
by pressing F8. Press ESC to decline the agreement and to abort setup.
6. In the next screen form, select which components you want to copy from the CD to your
hard disk. Minimum requirement for your Windows 2000 installation or setup is a copy of the
"I386" folder.
7. Select the destination drive for data transfer. The selected drive is not the installation drive
for Windows. Windows Setup requires approximately 500 MB of free hard disk space on
your Windows installation drive.
Note
Drive C: is the default destination for the data transfer (Recovery).
Please note that drive C: must provide approximately 500 MB of free hard disk space after
the selected recovery data have been copied.
8. Acknowledge the end message.
9. Run Windows Setup with
<<DRIVE>>:\I386\Winnt.exe
<<DRIVE>> is the destination drive to which the Recovery were copied.
10. Now follow the instructions on the screen.
Setting up the language selection for Windows 2000
The Multilanguage User Interface (MUI) allows you to set up the Windows 2000 menus and
dialogs for additional languages.
To install the MUI, start
"MUI-german"
on your Recovery CD to run MUISETUP.EXE. Follow the instructions on the screen to install
the required languages.
To set the required languages for the Windows 2000 menus, dialogs and keyboard layout,
select:
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Options > General tab, Setting for the current user field
and Language settings for the system field and the Keyboard layout field in the Input Locales tab.
In addition to the menu and dialog language settings, you also need to set the default
language by selecting Set Default... from the Regional Options dialog box.
