Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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From: Desk Rabbit
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:41

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Summercool 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.
> 
> Instead, it didn't detect there was Vista, and thought it is a disk
> drive without any OS and ready to be totally erased.

I looked at the screen shot you sent. It clearly says "Use entire disk". 
So you knew you had another operating system on there, you elected to 
use the entire disk and are then surprised that you no longer have the 
original operating system?

Which part of "Entire disk" did you notunderstand?

If there is a bug, it's with you. If you had tried to install any 
operating system on the entire disk that currently had an existing 
operating system you would have ended up with the same result whether 
that operating system was Vista or DOS 3.1

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