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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Aaron A. McBride, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Matthew A. Schnoor, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/05 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/05 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for restoring a system including a hard drive having a main logical disk and a recovery local disk, to a pristine state. The method comprises installing a copy of the master boot record onto the main logical drive of the hard drive and installing operating system information from the recovery drive to the main drive. The method further comprises setting the master boot record to boot from the main local drive, and rebooting the system.