Operating instructions

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Service and maintenance
11.2 Reinstalling the software
SIMATIC IPC627C
92 Operating Instructions, 11/2010, A5E02669068-02
11.2 Reinstalling the software
11.2.1 General installation procedure
If your software gets corrupted you can reinstall it from either the Recovery DVD, the
Documentation and Drivers DVD or the Restore DVD.
Recovery CD or DVD:
The recovery CD/DVD contains the Windows user interface with tools for configuring the
hard drives, and for installation of the operating system and the languages supported by the
operating system (MUI).
The basic language of the operating system to be installed is English. If you want to integrate
additional languages, you will need to subsequently install them from Recovery CD2 or DVD.
Documentation and Drivers DVD:
Contains the documentation and the hardware drivers.
Restore DVD:
Contains a hard disk image file with the original factory software (operating system with
installed hardware drivers and monitoring software, such as DiagBase).
11.2.2 Restoring the Factory State of the Software Using the Restore DVD
You can restore the original factory software using the Restore DVD. The DVD contains the
necessary images and tools for transferring the factory software to the hard disk of your PC.
You can restore the entire hard disk with drive C: (system) and drive D: or only drive C:. This
allows you to retain any user data on drive D:.
Retrieving authorizations or license keys from the hard disk
Check whether you can retrieve your authorization or license key from the hard disk and
perform this procedure as described below if possible.
If backup is not possible, please contact Customer Support. There you can obtain
information necessary for software authorization.
CAUTION
If "Restore system partition only" is set all data on drive C: (system partition) will be
deleted. All data, user settings and all authorizations or license keys on drive C: are lost!
All data on drive C: of the hard disk will be deleted. Setup formats the hard disk and
installs the original factory software.
If "Restore entire hard disk" is set ALL data, user settings, authorizations or license keys
will be lost on the hard disk.