Patent ID: 8271771

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for restoring an image to an encrypted disk, comprising: identifying an image to restore to the disk; reading information from one or more filesystems currently residing on the disk to identify one or more sectors on the disk that are reserved for a disk encryption driver; restoring the image by writing the image to one or more non-reserved sectors on the disk to prevent a volume level encryption of the image; creating one or more filesystems on the disk that are associated with the restored image; determining the content of the one or more created filesystems; and upon determining that the content is a first predetermined type, marking the one or more reserved sectors of the disk within the one or more created filesystems to prevent an operating system, of the one or more created filsystems, from writing to the one or more reserved sectors on the disk that are reserved for the disk encryption driver during a boot up process of the operating system; and upon determining that the content is of a second predetermined type, bypassing the marking of the one or more reserved sectors of the disk within the one or more created filesystems.