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Restore System Partition to Factory Defaults: overwrites the C partition (only) on the
existing system drive from the disk image in its local Restore partition.
Note: Following a Reset to Factory Defaults operation, the Windows® system software
must be re-activated. To do this, you will need the operating system serial number,
which you will find on a sticker affixed to the exterior of your system.
This procedure restores your system drive (“C:”) to its ‘as-shipped’ state. However any
software updates you performed earlier will be overwritten. When you do restore,
remember to update the 3Play software afterward.
Create User Backup Drive: create a bootable clone of the entire system drive (as it exists
at the time) on either an external HDD or a drive mounted in a removable hard drive
bay.
The clone operation includes:
o The existing (factory-prepared) Restore partition
o The complete C partition
In cases of catastrophic drive failure requiring drive replacement, a service technician
can connect the User Backup ‘clone’ drive in place of the original internal system drive
and you’ll be back in production (prudence would call for creating a new User Backup
drive as the first order of business.
Restore System Partition from User Backup Drive: overwrites the C partition (only) on
the existing system drive with the C partition on the external user backup drive. This
allows you to insert a User Backup drive into a removable drive bay (or otherwise
connect it), and regain a functional system partition as stored on the clone drive.
Note: This feature it is intended to allow a restore operation of the system drive that the
clone was prepared on. It is not intended to allow restoration from a ‘foreign’ unit.
Using the ‘Restore System Partition from User Backup Drive’ in the latter manner will
almost certainly cause multiple problems.
In a dire emergency, however (such as if a system drive fails when no User Backup from
the same unit has been prepared) a User Backup created on a similar model 3Play can be
helpful, as follows:
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