Powerquest Corporation

Steve Fairbanks

Chuck Peters

The invention provides tools and techniques for migration of user profiles in place on a computer. In one method, a first step provides a migration content storage partition to hold migration content such as user settings. This partition is provided by using a partition manipulation tool to obtain sufficient space on the computer. A second step saves migration content into the provided partition. A third step deploys an image into another partition on the computer, overwriting that partition. A fourth step then uses the migration tool to restore migration content from the migration content storage partition into the newly imaged partition, thereby customizing the new image with at least some of the former image's user settings. The migration content storage partition may then be deleted, or it may be retained and made available to the user as additional storage.

Method for deploying an image into other partition on a computer system by using an imaging tool and coordinating migration of user profile to the imaged computer system

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Draper, UT, United States of America

Steve Fairbanks