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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2007
Applicants:
Ying-chih LU, Taipei, TW;
Ling-hung Yu, Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Ying-Chih Lu, Taipei, TW;
Ling-Hung Yu, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Inventec Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method for protecting data in a hard disk, such that when a computer executes a power-on self test (POST) of a basic input/output system (BIOS), completes initialization of memories and calls an interrupt routine of the BIOS to read a hard disk area after initialization program codes of interface devices of all hard disk are executed, the computer will determine whether or not the hard disk has added a protection description data with a portion that matches with a computer identification code of the computer before accessing data in the hard disk.