User Guide

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Useful Information
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Using Recovery Disc
Use the Recovery Disc in the following conditions.
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You have forgotten the administrator password.
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Installation is not complete. The recovery partition in the ash memory may be broken.
Preparation
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Prepare the following items:
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• Recovery Disc (
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Reference Manual “Recovery Disc Creation Utility”)
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• USB DVD drive (optional) (refer to recent catalogs and other sources for information about the products
available)
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• <Only for model with TPM> Connect the external keyboard.
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Remove all peripherals (except for the USB DVD drive).
1 Connect the DVD drive to the USB port.
2 Start the Setup Utility.
A
Display “Charm” and touch
- [Change PC settings] - [Update and recovery] - [Recovery].
B
Touch [Restart now] under “Advanced startup”.
C
Touch [Troubleshoot] - [Advanced options] - [UEFI Firmware Settings] - [Restart].
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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 touch [Exit] and double-touch
[Load Default Values].
At the conrmation message, touch [Yes].
4 Check the [UEFI Boot] setting of the Setup Utility.
When the recovery disc for Windows 8.1 is used: [Enabled]
5 Set the Recovery Disc into the DVD drive.
6 Touch [Exit] and double-touch [Save Values and Reboot].
At the conrmation 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.
8 Touch [Exit], then double-touch your DVD drive in [Boot Override].
The computer will restart.
9 Touch [Reinstall Windows] and touch [Next].
10 Touch [YES].
11 At the License Agreement screen, touch [Yes, I agree to the provisions above and wish
to continue!] and touch [Next].
12 Touch [Next].
If the option is displayed, select the setting and touch [Next].
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[Reinstall Windows to the System Disk to factory default.]
Select this option when you want to install Windows to the factory default. After installation, you can create a
new partition. For how to create a new partition, refer to “To change the partition structure” (
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page 13).
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[Reinstall to the OS related partitions.]
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Select this option when the ash memory has already been divided into several partitions. For how to create
a new partition, refer to “To change the partition structure” (
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page 13).
You can keep the partition structure.
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This does not appear if Windows cannot be installed to the recovery partition and the area usable by Windows.
13 Attheconrmationmessage,touch[YES].
Installation starts according to the instructions on the screen. (It will take approximately 30 - 45 minutes.)
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Do not interrupt installation, for example by turning off the computer.
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Otherwise installation may become unavailable as Windows may not start up or the data may be corrupted.
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