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A software installation and recovery system provides an 

initial bootstrap sequence of instructions that initializes 

the low-level parameters of the client device, initializes 

the persistent storage system, loads a bootstrap loader 

from the persistent store into program memory, and 

passes execution to the bootstrap loader. A second 

stage boot loader locates the operating system in the 

persistent store, loads the operating system into 

program memory, and passes execution to the 

operating system which then performs necessary 

hardware and software initialization, loads the viewing 

object database code and other application software 

from the persistent store, and begins execution of the 

applications. The persistent store contains at least two 

partitions for each of the following: the second stage 

boot loader; the operating system kernel; and the 

application software. A partition table resides in the boot 

sector that records an indication for duplicated partitions 

in which one of the partitions is marked primary and 

another is marked backup. The invention verifies that 

each level of software was loaded off of the primary 

partition. If a load was from the primary partition and the 

installation at that level was successful, then a 

successful indication is recorded for that level, 

otherwise, the backup partition for that level is copied 

over the primary partition and a failure indication is 

recorded for that level. Finalizing the installation for the 

top application level of software may be delayed until all 

parts of the application environment have been 

successfully loaded and started.