Maintaining and servicing your device
7.5 Installing the software
SIMATIC IPC477E
Operating Instructions, 12/2016, A5E37455003-AB
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Installing the software
7.5.1
Reinstalling the operating system
7.5.1.1
General installation procedure
If your operating system is no longer functioning correctly, you can reinstall it from the
supplied USB stick:
● With the recovery function of the supplied USB stick
● With the restore function of the supplied USB stick
For these functions, set up the USB stick as bootable. For this purpose, "USB Boot" must be
set to "enabled" in the BIOS Setup.
Note
To install an operating system in UEFI mode, the USB stick must also be booted in UEFI
mode. Since Windows Embedded ope
rating systems are installed in MBR mode, the USB
stick must be booted for the Restore function in Legacy mode.
Recovery function (only with Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 10)
The Recovery function is not available for Windows Embedded operating systems.
The supplied USB contains the installation program with tools for configuring the drives and
installing the operating system with the supported languages.
The basic language of the installed operating system is English. To add other languages,
install these languages from the supplied USB stick (Documentation and Drivers).
Contents of the "DocuAndDrivers" directory
The supplied USB stick contains the documentation, hardware drivers and updates.
In Windows, these contents are available via a menu.
If you have ordered IPC477E with operating system, the supplied USB stick contains the
Restore function.