Operation Manual

Chapter8.Advancedconﬁguration

Thischapterprovidesthefollowinginformationtohelpyouconﬁgurethecomputer:

•“Installinganewoperatingsystem”onpage109

•“Installingdevicedrivers”onpage111

•“UsingtheThinkPadSetupprogram”onpage111

Installinganewoperatingsystem

Insomesituations,youmightneedtoinstallanewoperatingsystem.Thistopicprovidesinstructionson

howtoinstallanewoperatingsystem.

InstallingtheWindows7operatingsystem

Beforeyoustart,printtheseinstructions.

Attention:

•Theprocessofinstallinganewoperatingsystemdeletesallthedataonyourharddiskdriveorsolid-state

drive,includingthedatathatwerestoredinahiddenfolder.

•IfyourcomputerisequippedwithbothaharddiskdriveandanM.2solid-statedrive,donotusethe

M.2solid-statedriveasabootabledevice.TheM.2solid-statedriveisusedfor“cache”functionandto

supporttheIntelRapidStartTechnology.

ToinstalltheWindows7operatingsystem,dothefollowing:

1.CopyallthesubdirectoriesandﬁlesintheC:\SWTOOLSdirectorytoaremovablestoragedevice.

•ThesupplementﬁlesfortheWindows7operatingsystemareintheC:\SWTOOLS\OSFIXESdirectory.

•ThedevicedriversareintheC:\SWTOOLS\DRIVERSdirectory.

•ThepreinstalledprogramsareintheC:\SWTOOLS\APPSdirectory.

2.StarttheThinkPadSetupprogram.See“UsingtheThinkPadSetupprogram”onpage111.

3.SelectStartup➙UEFI/LegacyBoot.Thendooneofthefollowing:

•ToinstalltheWindows7(32-bit)operatingsystem,selectLegacyOnlyorBoth.

•ToinstalltheWindows7(64-bit)operatingsysteminLegacymode,selectLegacyOnly.

•ToinstalltheWindows7(64-bit)operatingsysteminUEFImode,selectUEFIOnly.

4.PresstheF10keytoexittheThinkPadSetupprogram.

5.InserttheWindows7operatingsysteminstallationDVDintotheopticaldrive,andrestartthecomputer.

6.RestoretheC:\SWTOOLSdirectorythatyoubackedupbeforeinstallingtheWindows7operatingsystem.

7.Installthedevicedrivers.See“Installingdevicedrivers”onpage111.

8.InstalltheWindows7ﬁxmodules.YoucanﬁndtheWindows7ﬁxmodulesintheC:\SWTOOLS\OSFIXES\

directory.Formoreinformation,gototheMicrosoftKnowledgeBasehomepageat:

http://support.microsoft.com/

9.Installtheregistrypatches,forexampletheEnablingWakeonLANfromStandbyforENERGYSTAR

patch.Todownloadandinstalltheregistrypatches,gototheLenovoSupportWebsiteat:

http://www.lenovo.com/support

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