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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2016
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Gary Mark Nobel, Poway, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 3/0626 (2013.01); G06F 3/0632 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 13/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one example, a computing device including a mass storage medium. The mass storage medium has a pre-installed operating system but no pre-installed partition table. The mass storage medium has pre-installed boot software to generate and store a partition table on the mass storage medium. The partition table is usable by the operating system to access information on the mass storage medium.