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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
May. 13, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jack R. Matthew, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Renchun Chang, Stockholm, SE;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An indication is received from a user to initiate installation of an operating system onto a storage device of a computer. The storage device is partitioned into an original partition and a new partition. Installation software for the operating system is loaded onto the new partition. The computer is booted into the installation software on the new partition. The operating system is installed onto the original partition via the installation software on the new partition. The computer is then re-booted into the operating system on the original partition and the new partition is removed from the storage device.