A METHOD FOR REPARTITIONING PHYSICAL SECTORS OF A STORAGE SYSTEM WITH USE OF VIRTUAL DISC DRIVES A DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND A DATA STORAGE APPARATUS

摘要

For the partition configuration changes, analyze information related to the interior of the operating system developed by third parties, in order to solve the problem known as a result, it is necessary to perform a new technology to directly manipulate the operating system.; By the partition based on the physical sector in the external storage device as a unit in the operating system to perform the division control, the method comprising: changing the partition size as appropriate; Comprising: by a standard procedure previously provided to the operating system, to partition and after the change as a new partition; The method comprising, based on the written information of the new partition, determining a new physical location of all the data in the partition; A step of obtaining location information of the physical sector is replaced by the new based on physical location, and generates the difference information between the original location and the new location information; The method comprising, based on the difference between the produced information to regenerate the said partition; And to create a virtual drive by each step of the step of successively recording and updates the progress points of the regeneration process, whereby, while without depending on the internal structure of a file system holding the contents of the partition do the re-creation of the partition the regeneration method of the partitions, the data processing apparatus and a data storage device using a virtual drive as claimed is provided.