LEET™
User
Manual
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III. Best Practices (3/4)
3. Backup & Restore
A. Backup your files
Store your movies/videos, music, office documents and other personal files on the “Storage” partition (D:)
Depending on your specific LEET™ configuration, the “Storage” partition can either be one single HDD, or
two (mirror), three (parity), or four (mirror or parity) HDDs configured as a Windows storage space.
Whereas mirror and parity configurations are protecting your “Storage” partition against a single HDD
failure, we still recommend to backup your “Storage” partition to external hard drives from time to time.
We also recommend using cloud sync services like Microsoft SkyDrive or Dropbox for important data.
B. Create a restore point
“System” partition (C:) contains your Windows 8 and program/game installation files.
Depending on your specific LEET™ configuration, the “System” partition can be either one single SSD, or
two SSDs in RAID0 (speed mode), RAID1 (mirror mode), or no-RAID.
You should in any case, create system restore points from time to time, to be able to fall back to a system
status that is functional, in case of any operating system or software/app problems.
You can create a system restore point for your “System” partition (C:) as follows:
1. Navigate to “Control Panel” >>> “System” >>> click “ System Protection”. A window should pop now.
2. Click on “Create…” >>> Type in a name for your restore point >>> click “Create”
It should only take a few seconds to create your restore point.
C. Restore your system from a restore point within Windows
You can restore your “System” partition (C:) to a previous (functional) system state as follows:
1. Navigate to “Control Panel” >>> “System” >>> “System Protection”. A window will pop up now.
2. Click on “System Restore…” and then “Next >”. This should display several restore points.
3. Check the box “Show more restore points” to display even older restore points incl. the ones we
created in the manufacturing process of your LEET.
4. To restore the original system state, please select “SD Final” and click “Next >”.
5. Click “Finish” to confirm system restore. The restore can take up to 30 minutes. After the restore your
system should boot up into the restored functional system stage.
D. Restore, repair, or reload image from boot
Should your system not boot into Windows anymore or should you not be able to restore a functioning
system state as explained above, try to do the following:
1. Place original Window 8 DVD into your Blu-ray drive.
2. Turn off your system.
3. Turn on your system and immediately keep the “F8” key pressed until the BIOS boot menu loads.
4. Select your Blu-ray drive and press “Enter”.
5. Your system will now boot from the Windows 8 DVD.
6. Click “Next” >>> “Repair your Computer” >>> “Troubleshoot” >>> “Advanced Options”
7. A) If you like to restore a previous system state, click “System Restore” and follow the instructions.
B) If A) does not solve your problem, click “Automatic Repair” and follow the instructions.
C) If neither A) nor B) resolve your problem, click on “System Image Recovery“. It will ask you to “insert
the final backup DVD”. Insert the “SD System Image” Blu-ray from your folder and click “Retry”. This
will completely erase and clean install your System partition (C:). NOTE: All data on C: will be lost.
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