US Patent:
20060161811, Jul 20, 2006
Inventors:
Frank Welts - San Luis Obispo CA, US
Assignee:
Sonic Solutions, a California corporation - Novato CA
International Classification:
G06F 11/00
Abstract:
The present embodiments perform active volume restores on actively running initial operating systems in an active partition. The methods identify available memory within a partition, duplicate at least a portion of an initial operating system image into the identified available memory providing a duplicate operating system, remap access from an initial operating system to the at least the duplicate operating system image, store a temporary operating system on to the partition, reboot into the temporary operating system, operate through the temporary operating system and store a restore operating system into the partition; and reboot into the restore operating system.