Patent ID: 7610443

Claim:
A method for accessing audiovisual data in a computer, the computer including a hard disk divided into a partition region and a non-partition region, the partition region having an audiovisual table to record a location of the audiovisual data stored in the non-partition region and the audiovisual table being copied to a pre-determined location of the non-partition region, the method comprising the steps: a load step, which loads the audiovisual table and emulates the non-partition region as an emulated rewritable compact disk (CD-RW) drive for storing the audiovisual data; an access determining step, which determines if the computer accesses the emulated compact disk drive; a converting step, which sets a block size of the non-partition region to 2 n-1 mega bytes and performs a converting procedure to convert an access instruction to a compact disk drive into an access instruction to the non-partition region when the access determining step decides that the computer accesses the emulated rewritable compact disk drive, wherein n is a positive integer; and an access step, which accesses the non-partition region in accordance with the access instruction converted and the audiovisual table.