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Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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From: spike1
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:01
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In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.advocacy,
dennis@home <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> didnst hastily scribble thusly:

> "lee h" <noti@domain.invalid> wrote in message 
> news:MM7Ri.10622$lD6.5170@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...
>> rodolfo.garcia44@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Oct 16, 6:03 am, Summercool <Summercooln...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> After installing Ubuntu, it seemed that everything on my Drive C: was
>>>> lost.
>>>>
>>
>> For the simplest Ubuntu install on a windows box, use Wubi
>> (Windows Ubuntu Installer).

> Its a bit too late for that.
> The lack of a suitable warning has made sure another potential Linux user 
> will stick with something else.

What lack of suitable warning?
Can you show us some screen shots of this "lack of warning"?

> This is the problem with Linux .. 

No it isn't.

> it is written by geeks who have no idea 
> how simple it has to be for the mass market.

No it isn't. Ever installed windows?


> Windows would have warned the user at least twice before removing a Linux 
> partition and that would be after selecting the partition and saying delete. 

Hahaha, oh really? Let's see some proof that linux didn't warn him then,
shall we?
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