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11.2.2
Windows XP Professional / Windows 2000 Professional
11.2.2.1
General installation procedure
If your software becomes corrupt for any reason, you have two possibilities:
● Restoring the factory state of the software with the Restore DVD
The Restore DVD contains an image file of the original supplied software (operating
system with installed drivers) and is included in the Windows XP Professional variant.
● Setting up the operating system with the Windows 2000 Professional Recovery CD
The recovery CD contains the tools required to set up the hard disk as well as the
operating system. After the required data have been copied to the hard disk, you can run
Windows XP professional Setup to install the operating system.
Note
You will need a USB keyboard in order to reinstall the operating system.
11.2.2.2
Restoring the Software to Factory State Using the Restore DVD
You can reinstall the original factory software (included in the Windows XP Professional
supply variant) using the Restore DVD. The DVD contains the necessary images and tools
for transferring the factory software to the hard disk of your PC. The following options are
available for restoring software:
● 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:.
CAUTION
With the option "Restore system partition only", 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 your hard disk drive will be deleted. Setup formats the hard
disk partition and reinstalls the original factory software.
When you select the "Restore entire hard disk" option, ALL the data, user settings and
authorizations or license keys will be lost on the hard disk.
SIMATIC Box PC 627B
Operating Instructions, 06/2008, A5E00927393-02
Maintenance and service
11.2 Reinstalling the operating system
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