Method for partitioning storage regions on hard disk and compute

Details Method for partitioning storage regions on hard disk and compute Method for partitioning storage regions on hard disk and compute

1997-07-18

1999-12-07

Lane, Jack A.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Memory configuring

711 4, 711 11, G06F 1200

Patent

active

060000236

ABSTRACT:
A method for partitioning a magnetic hard disk is disclosed which comprises obtaining an ending position of the file allocation table area by using information stored in the boot sector of the hard disk, detecting contents of the file allocation table (FAT) to obtain a starting position of areas, where data is not stored, of the data storage area, and setting the starting position as a starting position of a second of the at least two partition blocks. With the disk partitioning method, the second partition block is overlapped with a part of a first of the at least two partition blocks. Even though program files including a testing program of the computer system are erased from the second partition block (i.e., overlapped region), the computer system can recognize the whole area of the hard disk as an available limit storage region.

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patent: 5600840 (1997-02-01), Pearce et al.
patent: 5675769 (1997-10-01), Ruff et al.
patent: 5706472 (1998-01-01), Ruff et al.

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