| 摘要 |
One embodiment of the disclosures made herein is a method for facilitating restoration of a system configuration of a data processing system. In accordance with such embodiment, a hidden recovery partition and an active system configuration partition are created on a first resident storage unit of a data processing system. An image of a baseline system configuration is stored in the hidden recovery partition. A modified system configuration is created and is stored in the active system configuration partition. The modified system configuration is modified with respect to the baseline system configuration. The data processing system is operated in accordance with the modified system configuration. The image of the baseline system configuration is accessed for restoring operation of the data processing system in accordance with the baseline system configuration. Restoring operation of the data processing system in accordance with the baseline system configuration is performed in response to accessing the image of the baseline system configuration and includes replacing the modified system configuration with the baseline system configuration. The method may further include operations for managing data files. In one embodiment of such operations for managing the data files, data files are stored on a second resident storage unit after creating the recovery partition and at least a portion of the second resident storage unit is reformatted in response to restoring operation of the data processing system in accordance with the baseline system configuration. In another embodiment of such operations for managing the data files, a data partition is created on the first resident storage unit in conjunction with creating the hidden recovery partition, data files are stored in the data partition and the data partition is reformatted in response to restoring operation of the data processing system in accordance with the baseline system configuration. |
