Method and system for mounting a system partition as a logical d

Details Method and system for mounting a system partition as a logical d Method and system for mounting a system partition as a logical d

1996-09-17

1999-10-26

Gossage, Glenn

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Memory configuring

711112, 713 1, 713100, G06F 1200, G06F 1300

Patent

active

059745177

ABSTRACT:
A computer system and method for allowing access to system partitions while an operating system is operational are disclosed. The system partitions are mounted by the operating system as logical drives so that the system partitions can be accessed as any other logical drive. In one embodiment, a method for accessing a special partition on at least one of a plurality of physical disks associated with a computer system running an operating system includes the operations of identifying a designated disk from the plurality of physical disks, each of the physical disks having a partition table associated therewith, and determining whether there is a special partition on the designated disk. The method further includes identifying the partition table associated with the designated disk when it is determined that the special partition is on the designated disk, and modifying a partition type in the partition table associated with the designated disk when it is determined that the special partition is on the designated disk.

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patent: 5136711 (1992-08-01), Hugard et al.
patent: 5675769 (1997-10-01), Ruff et al.
Unknown, reference pertaining to Windows NT, Chapter 4, "Raid for Speedier, Safer Disks," pp. 124-135 (date unknown).

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