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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2005
Marc A. Dickenson, Austin, TX (US);
John S. Langford, Austin, TX (US);
Atit D. Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Marc A. Dickenson, Austin, TX (US);
John S. Langford, Austin, TX (US);
Atit D. Patel, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for correcting a formatting error in a boot sector of a hard disk drive is disclosed. An error in a first formatting of a first hard disk drive is discovered, and a second formatting is extracted from a second hard disk drive storing second data. The erroneous first formatting is replaced with a modification of the second formatting, and first data is stored in the first hard disk drive with the modification of the second formatting. The first data is different from the second data.
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