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    Panasonic CF-H1

    Discussion in 'Smartphones and Tablets' started by Acorn Archimedes, May 12, 2017.

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    Acorn Archimedes Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi I have acquired some Panasonic CF-H1 tablets I also have one docking station. These are ex NHS government machines and the hard drives have been wiped. I have ubuntu running on one of them but I 've found the performance to be very poor... they have the windows 7 license sticker on them and from experience I know that Windows 7 is a lot lighter than Ubuntu. I'm planing on sticking Windows pro on all of them however I'm having a problem with getting in to the BIOS to change the boot options, there are BIOS passwords on all of them, however I can boot from USB on some but others I'm having problems. Is there something I can do to clear the BIOS password or maybe there is a default password?
     
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    Starlight5 Yes, I'm a cat. What else is there to say, really?

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    @Acorn Archimedes you can try killing BIOS passwords using cmospwd though it might not work and mess things up completely. Give it a try on one of the machines if you are really desperate.
     
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    Hi I've tried almost everything I could possibly think off but nothing gets through to the BIOS.

    What I've found is that they boot from USB if the hard drive is removed so what I've done is taken out the hard drives and made a bootable USB with Windows 7...... with the hard drive removed I can load the Windows from the USB then pop the hard drive back in until Windows detected it. I'm then able to delete the partitions on the hard drive then switch it off and back on again with the USB plugged in and the hard drive plugged in this time then Windows is able to detect the hard drive correctly and install Windows.

    It was a bit of a pain, it took me about 5 hours of messing about until I was able to install Windows and I've found all the drivers for the CF-H1's apart from the camera drivers but other than that they are all working good now with Windows 7 PRO and Office.
     
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    On five of them I've installed different versions of Windows 7 on them and lined them up in order, so like I've used the Windows Aero Theme's and changed the colors of the task bars and windows color to match the versions of Windows 7.

    Windows 7 Starter is gray

    Windows 7 Home Basic is light green

    Windows 7 Professional is dark blue

    Windows 7 Ultimate is black

    Windows 7 Enterprise is orange

    I have the correct wallpapers as well to go with each desktop version.
     
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