Country or region: Code

China: SC

Denmark: DK

Finland: FI

France: FR

Germany: GR

Italy: IT

Japan: JP

Netherlands: NL

Norway: NO

Spain: SP

Sweden: SV

Taiwan and Hong Kong: TC

United States: US

Installing the Windows 7 operating system

Before you start, print these instructions.

To install the Windows 7 operating system and its related software on your computer, do the following:

1.Start ThinkPad Setup.

2.Select Boot.

3.Select UEFI/Legacy Boot.

4.Do one of the following:

If you want to install the Windows 7 (32–bit) operating system, select Legacy Only or Both.

If you want to install the Windows 7 (64–bit) operating system in Legacy mode, select Legacy Only.

If you want to install the Windows 7 (64–bit) operating system in UEFI mode, select UEFI Only.

5.Press F10.

6.Insert the Windows 7 operating system installation DVD into the DVD drive, and restart the computer.

7.Restore C:\SWTOOLS from the backup copy you made before starting the installation.

8.Install the Intel Chipset Support for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7. To do this, run Setup.exe in C:\SWTOOLS\DRIVERS\INTELINF\infinst_autol.

9.Install ThinkPad AMD SMBus Driver for Windows 7 and ThinkPad AMD SATA Controller Driver for Windows 7.

10.Install device drivers. See “Installing device drivers” on page 111.

Installing the registry patches for Windows 7

Go to http://www.lenovo.com/support and install the following registry patches:

Registry patch enabling Wake Up on LAN from Standby for Energy Star

Fix for Issue of HDD with HD Detection

Installing the Windows 7 update module package

The Windows 7 update modules are in the following directory:

C:\SWTOOLS\OSFIXES\

The name of each subfolder is the number of a fix module. For information about each fix module, go to the Microsoft Knowledge Base homepage at http://www.lenovo.com/support, type the number of the fix module you need in the search field, and click Search.

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Lenovo 2344BMU manual Installing the Windows 7 operating system, Country or region Code, Select UEFI/Legacy Boot

2344BMU specifications

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