Patent ID: 7509530

Claim:
A method for use in restoring an active partition, comprising: identifying available memory within a partition; duplicating, in response to identifying the available memory, an initial active operating system image into the identified available memory providing a duplicate operating system; remapping, in response to the duplicating the initial operating system, access from the initial operating system to the duplicate operating system; storing, once the access from the initial operating system is remapped to the duplicated operating system, a temporary operating system on to the partition; rebooting into the temporary operating system; operating through the temporary operating system, in response to the rebooting into the temporary operating system, and storing a restore operating system into the partition; and rebooting, in response to the storing of the restore operating system, into the restore operating system; wherein the remapping comprises remapping the access from the initial operating system to the duplicate operating system on the same partition such that continued operations attempting to access the initial operating system continue to function appropriately by accessing the duplicate operating system without rebooting.