Patent ID: 6477629
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for protecting a user's productivity upon detecting a failure with a storage media of the user's computer system, the system comprising;a SCSI peripheral storage device having a storage media that is formatted to be a protection enabled media and contains a backup set of data including a default set of boot files and operating system files that are copied to the SCSI peripheral storage device using file-based copying, the backup set of data is configured to be backed up on a schedule to create a file image footprint, and the SCSI peripheral storage device is visible to an operating system stored on the storage media of the user's computer system; a SCSI host adapter BIOS being configured to receive an indication from a system BIOS that the failure has occurred with the storage media of the user's computer system, the SCSI host adapter BIOS being further configured to provide an option of re-booting the user's computer system from the SCSI peripheral storage device, even when the storage media of the user's computer system is on an EIDE device; and a user interface display for providing options of repairing the storage media, restoring the storage media, or continue working from the SCSI peripheral storage device until the storage media is repaired and restored.