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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Inventec Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 ;
Abstract
A method for quickly formatting a disk is disclosed. It can save lots of time when a disk or a disk partition is formatted. The technique of this invention redirects the interrupt instruction of the BIOS to get the disk (or disk partition) information which includes the sector number, starting location and type thereof. According to the disk (or disk partition) type (FAT 16 or FAT 32), the section number of the file allocation table (FAT) is rearrange by a logical operation unit. Then write the boot record to the mapped location and clear the FAT and file directory to zero to accomplish disk formatting procedure.