摘要 |
An apparatus, system and method for booting a data processing system from a removable medium is provided. With the apparatus, system and method, a boot sequence is started to a point at which a file system is available. At that time, driver files and registry information is copied from the data processing system to the removable medium. The boot sequence is then restarted using the driver files and registry information copied. In this way, a removable medium, having application data and user defined setting information, may be used to customize a plurality of different data processing systems while still providing the user access to the particular data processing system configuration and peripheral devices of the data processing system. Thus, the user's customized settings provide a system interface that is familiar to the user while being able to make use of different hardware devices.
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