Patent ID: 7203804
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for passing data between partitions in a storage device, the apparatus comprising: a first operating system installed on a first partition of the storage device; a second operating system installed on a second partition of the storage device, the second partition hidden from the first operating system, wherein the second partition is inaccessible to the first operating system for data storage; a user mode module configured to operate on the first operating system and to store in a memory information that is associated with user data to be backed up and to allocate a recovery area of the first partition of the storage device for the user data stored in the second partition of the storage device, wherein the memory comprises memory accessible to both the first and second operating systems; and a management mode module configured to operate on the second operating system, to retrieve the information associated with user data from the memory and to store the user data in the second partition of the storage device.