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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2000
Jean-Francois Larvoire, Meylan, FR;
Francois-Xavier Lecarpentier, Sassenage, FR;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A software image transition aid is described for acting on a software image that is transferred from a source computer to a target computer, the aid comprising: a bootable storage media with stored thereon one or more operating systems arranged to load when the target computer is booted from the storage media and program code elements arranged to modify the cloned disk image under the control of the operating system or systems, so that when the target computer is rebooted from the transferred image the target computer will reach an operational state. The tool can be used in the following way. First the user transfers the complete operational software image from the target PC onto a source PC. Then, before being booted from the cloned image, the target computer is booted from the image transition aid. The image transition aid acts on the software image stored on the hard disk in the target computer. Once the process in completed the target computer is rebooted to load the operating system that was transferred with the software image.