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Article #139Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive
From: JEDIDIAH
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:39
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:39
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On 2007-10-16, Summercool <Summercoolness@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 16, 1:55 pm, spi...@freenet.co.uk wrote:
>> In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.advocacy,
>> Gene Jones <ja...@janus.com> didnst hastily scribble thusly:
>>
>> > chrisv <chr...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> >> Gene Jones wrote:
>>
>> >> > sorry for
>> >> > your loss, but linux kids will bitch and complain that it is YOUR fault,
>
> Ok, Ubuntu's tech support people confirmed that it is a bug. Ubuntu
> should have detected there was Vista on the machine, and therefore
> give a slide bar to re-partition the drive.
...which would do squat without the ability to monkey around
with an already existing NTFS partition.
>
> Instead, it didn't detect there was Vista, and thought it is a disk
> drive without any OS and ready to be totally erased.
The best it could have done in that situation is presented some
lame ass Windows style "do you really want do to this, we don't trust you"
sort of click through dialog box.
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