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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
May. 09, 2000
Yafu J. Ding, Milpitas, CA (US);
Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods for selecting a boot partition from a single drive of a computer are disclosed. In one example, a method includes receiving a boot request and accessing a signature sector of the single drive to ascertain a first serial number for a first boot partition and a second serial number for a second boot partition. The method then proceeds to scanning the single drive to identify the first boot partition using the first serial number and identify the second boot partition using the second serial number. A selection window requesting user selection of either the first boot partition or the second boot partition is then generated. The method then proceeds to modifying a boot flag of the single drive in response to the user selection, and the modifying of the boot flag is configured to identify one of the first boot partition and the second boot partition as a partition containing an operating system for booting the computer. In accordance with this example, the method further includes hiding a non-selected partition.