Method and apparatus for multiple boot environments within a hard disk drive
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Jan 27, 2009
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May 18, 2006
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Nov 18, 2004
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Nov 18, 2004
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This invention includes a method providing at least two boot environments with only one hard disk drive, by using at least two disk surfaces within the hard disk drive. The invention includes the hard disk drives implementing the method. The hard disk drive may include more than two disk surfaces and support more than two boot environments. The invention includes making the hard disk drive, and the product of that process. The invention includes computer systems including at least one of these hard disk drives. The invention also includes removable storage systems which include at least one hard disk drive, and which may communicate via a wireline and/or wireless physical transport with a computer system.
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