Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Khanh Gia Tran

Kenneth A Kotyuk

Inderjit Singh Chohan

Ming Hee Wong

Lawton Chun-Hing Mue

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to an optical disc drive test. In one embodiment, an optical disc drive of a host electronic device performs a test on itself. The host electronic device requests information about the test from the optical disc drive. The optical disc drive reports information about the test in response to the request.

Optical disc drive test

Methods and systems for storing recovery related information on a computer memory are described. One exemplary method comprises accessing a user input relating to a user selection of applications to be restored upon executing a recovery of the memory and storing on a recovery partition of the memory a recovery image corresponding to a user image on a user partition of the memory. The user image comprises the user selection of applications. Upon executing a recovery, the recovery image is copied to the user partition such that the user image is configured to correspond to the recovery image. The recovery image is derived from a set of applications that includes at least one un-installed application.

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Sacramento, CA, United States of America

Khanh Gia Tran