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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Curtis E. Stevens, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Phoenix Technologies Ltd., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/24 ;
Abstract
Reservation and allocation of additional space on a hard disk drive for use by an end user is disclosed. A user-accessible area of a hard disk drive is enlarged by determining if a boot engineering extension record is present. If the boot engineering extension record is present, the amount of free media space in the host protected area of the hard disk drive is determined. If media space is available, the unused portion of the host protected area is converted to be user-accessible.