Method and system for recovering from operating system failure
US6167494A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 28, 1998 |
| Grant date | Dec 26, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 28, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/1446
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product in which half of the storage space on a non-volatile storage device is used to maintain a copy of the last "known-good" copy of the operating system and on invocation by a user, restoring from this backup copy when, for example, the operating system has become corrupted due to changes made to settings or device drivers.
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