Patent ID: 8219795
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a storage medium comprising, a first partition that stores a first operating system and data; and a second partition that stores a second operating system, a data rescue program, a third operating system, a recovery image for recovering the first partition into an initial state, and a recovery program for recovering the first partition into the initial state using the recovery image; an embedded controller that received various commands from external devices, the various commands comprising a command for booting the second operating system; and a boot control section that boots the second operating system when the command is received by the embedded controller, wherein, upon the second operating system being booted, the data rescue program is executed to automatically: recover at least a portion of the data stored in the first partition and back up the data portion into another partition, other than the first partition, boot from the second partition and employ the recovery image stored in the second partition to recover the first partition into the initial state, and restore the backed up data portion in the another partition into the first partition.