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Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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From: spike1
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:42
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In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.advocacy,
Summercool <Summercoolness@gmail.com> didnst hastily scribble thusly:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_thread/thread/4e798345b0867259/a47e92401f123e53#a47e92401f123e53
>>
>> Installing Ubuntu erased the whole hard drive without warning


> Partition merely means dividing the data.  It doesn't mean erasing.

Hahaha, clueless to the last.

> I can partition my drive without losing a single file.

If you tell it to partition the whole drive?
Let's see this wonder of wonders then shall we?

> yet ubuntu's partition didn't clearly say that it will erase the whole
> drive besides dividing the drive.

Yes, it did.

> posting on the Mac forum gets a warm feeling.  posting on the Windows
> forum still get a helpful feeling.  on Linux it is the very opposite
> of Mac.

A: This isn't a forum, this is a newsgroup. You don't even know THAT?
B: Try posting to the mac advocacy newsgroup about installing something and
getting your partition table wiped cos you said use the whole drive, see
where it gets you. Do the same in the windows advocacy group...

GOD, he gets stupider with every post.
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