Device maintenance and repair 
  7.5 Installing the software 
SIMATIC IPC627D/827D 
Operating Instructions, 09/2014, A5E32990859-AB 
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You need the Recovery DVD for the operating system you want to install. The recovery DVD 
is included in the scope of delivery when you have configured a device with operating 
system. 
If you use storage controllers that are unknown to the operating system, for example a RAID 
controller or AHCI controller, copy the respective controller driver to a USB stick and keep 
this USB stick to hand. The controller driver is required during installation. 
1.  If your device has no DVD drive, connect an external USB DVD drive to a USB port. 
2.  Insert the Recovery DVD into the DVD drive. 
3.  Reboot the device. 
4.  Press the <Esc> key when the device boots and keep it pressed. 
The BIOS selection menu is displayed when initialization is completed. 
5.  Click the "Boot Manager" button. 
6.  Select the optical drive using the cursor keys. It is identified by a "P" in front of the SATA 
port number. 
Example: 
P5: DV-W28S-A 
7.  Confirm the selection by pressing ENTER. 
8. 
 press any key when you see the following prompt to install the operating 
system from the Recovery DVD. 
Press any key to boot from CD or DVD .. 
After a few seconds, you will see the "Install Windows" installation program. 
9.  Now follow the instructions in the installation program. 
You can find additional information on this in the next section. 
"Install Windows" installation program 
The language of the installation program and the operating system is preset to English. You 
can change the language of the operating system after the installation. Information on this 
topic is available in the section "Setting up the language selection using the Multilanguage 
User Interface (MUI)". 
Setting up partitions and integrating storage controllers unknown to the operating system  
You can set up partitions during the installation process and integrate storage controllers that 
are unknown to the operating system. To do so, select "Custom (advanced)" when prompted 
for the installation type in the "Install Windows" installation program.