Lenovo P50 Setup

Preparations

• Create an empty USB Stick with MBR Partition
  • Look up actual disk name in Disk Utility
  • Afterwards used the Terminal diskutil partitionDisk disk2 1 MBR MS-DOS newdisk R
• Use the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool on a Windows computer to create an installation medium.
• Create an empty USB Hard Drive
  • Look up actual disk name in Disk Utility
  • Afterwards used the Terminal diskutil partitionDisk disk4 1 MBR MS-DOS newdisk R

Install

Attach both drives to a windows PC. In this example, F: is the stick with the installation files, E: is the USB SSD where we want to install Windows 10.

1. Open cmd.exe
2. diskpart Inside the Diskpart console:
3. list disk (Note the number of the USB SSD)
4. select disk 1
5. clean
6. create partition primary
7. format fs=ntfs quick
8. active
9. assign letter=e
10. exit
11. Close the command windows.
12. Open a command window with administrator privileges
13. `dism /apply-image /imagefile=f:\sources\install.esd /index:1 /applydir:e:\
14. bcdboot e:\Windows /s e: /f ALL

Setup

• Create an administrator account
• Install all updates

• Install [Lenovo Drivers](http://support.lenovo.com/de/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-p-series-laptops/thinkpad-p50?tabName=Downloads&linkTrack=Mast:SubNav:Support:Drivers%20and%20Software

  Drivers%20and%20Software&beta=false)

• Create a normal (standard) user account