Lenovo E525, E425 manual Installing Windows 7 operating system, Select UEFI/Legacy Boot

Models: E525 E425

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Installing Windows 7 operating system

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

1.Start the ThinkPad Setup program.

2.Select Startup .

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

8.Install device drivers. To do this, refer to “Installing drivers and software” on page 95.

Installing Registry Patch for Windows 7

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

To install this Registry Patch, go to:

http://www.lenovo.com/support.

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://support.microsoft.com/, type the number of the fix module you need in the search field, and click Search.

Note: The Web site address might change without notice. If the homepage is not displayed, search for it from the Microsoft top page.

To install a fix module, run the EXE file in a subfolder and follow the instructions on the screen.

Note: If you remove the hard disk drive from the computer with a single-core processor and install it on a computer with a dual-core processor, you can get access to the hard disk drive. The opposite, however, is

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Lenovo E525, E425 Installing Windows 7 operating system, Select UEFI/Legacy Boot, Installing Registry Patch for Windows