Installing windows 7 operating system – Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E525 User Manual

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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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