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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2006
Wei Liu, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin W. Deike, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Manoj Gujarathi, Round Rock, TX (US);
Mukund P. Khatri, Austin, TX (US);
Charles T. Perusse, Jr., Pflugerville, TX (US);
Theodore Webb, Austin, TX (US);
Wei Liu, Austin, TX (US);
Kevin W. Deike, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Manoj Gujarathi, Round Rock, TX (US);
Mukund P. Khatri, Austin, TX (US);
Charles T. Perusse, Jr., Pflugerville, TX (US);
Theodore Webb, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Installable device drivers may be stored on a partition, e.g., Utility Partition (UP) or other OEM partition, of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) storage device, e.g., hard disk drive, by associating an INT13h Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) interrupt call, e.g., reading from floppy disk drive a: or drive b: a desired storage device driver during the normal course of installing an operating system (OS), e.g., Microsoft Windows, Linux, BSD, Unix, etc., on the information handling system, e.g., personal computer, server, blade server, storage array, workstation, etc. The run-time loading of a raw floppy image having OS installable drivers residing in the Utility Partition or other hidden partition on the hard disk may be presented as a virtual floppy disk drive to the OS installer, e.g., person (manual) or scripted (automated) process.