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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2001
VU V. Luu, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mark F. Vallis, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Vu V. Luu, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mark F. Vallis, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Western Digital Ventures, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention may be embodied in a method, performed in a computer system having a disk drive, for installing an application program for execution under a user's preferred operating system without requiring user intervention. A command is received by the disk drive for reading a first data block to initiate a bootload of the user's preferred operating system. The disk drive detects the command and transfers a second data block which bootloads an installer program for installing the application program. The installer program is executed in the computer system to transfer the application program from a protected area of the disk drive to a user area of the disk drive, to modify a parameter of the user's preferred operating system to cause the application program to be loaded during a bootload of the user's preferred operating system, and to reboot the system to bootload the user's preferred operating system.