HP Business Notebook HP_TOOLS Partition Guidelines

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HPEFIapplicationsandprebootapplicationsprovideextensiveprebootfunctions
tothesystemBIOSresidingintheflashrom.TheseHPprebootapplicationsare
placedonaHPspecificpartition.On2008andlatercommercialnotebook
platformswithEFIBIOS,theprebootpartitionHP_TOOLSiscreatedbythe
preinstallteamasaFat32partition.
Warning
DonotencryptHP_TOOLSpartitionusingsoftwareencryptionprogramssuchas
WindowsBitLockerorFullVolumeEncryptionforHPProtectTools.Whenthe
partitionisencrypted,HPprebootapplicationscannotfunction.
Volume Name
HP_TOOLS
Note:QuickWebisaLinuxbasedapplicationandLinuxdirectoryiscasesensitive.
(SoisNTFS.Fat32isnot).WhenVolumenameandHewlett‐Packarddirectoryis
created,pleasemakesurethatit’sallcapitalized.
HP_TOOLS Partition Size
Thetotalpartitionsizeis2GB.
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4. HP_TOOLS Partition Directories and Descriptions
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TheHP_TOOLSpartitionstructureshouldmirrorwhatwealreadyhaveforNTFS
filesystem.AndtheEFIapplicationandprebootapplicationinstallationshould
followtherulesforotherHPsoftware.
Forthoseprebootdeliverablesthatarewebreleased,theyneedtobeinstalled
usingSoftpaq.
WhenaSoftpaqisrun,
itwillextractintotheC:\swsetupdirectoryjustasother
Softpaqs.ThentheprebootsoftwareinstallationshouldsearchfortheFat32
partitionwiththe“HP_TOOLS”labelandinstallitselfunderthedirectory:
:\HEWLETT‐PACKARD\softwarename
e.g.Quicklook.efianditsdigitalsignatureshouldbeplacedunder
:\HEWLETT‐PACKARD\QUICKLOOK\quicklook.efi