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Article #276Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive
From: Summercool
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:52
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:52
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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 would say, no matter whether it is a bug in Ubuntu that it could not detect a pre-existing OS, or that it detects a pre-existing OS, in either case, give out a simple warning to the user if it is to do something so drastic as erasing the whole hard drive. Even the Vista installation warned that "you are about to erase everything in the hard drive" when i reinstalled Vista. By the way, Linux guys, remember the other people don't install Linux 20 times in a year. Sometimes you guys start with a brand new machine, so if you goof up, you can just reinstall and go get a cup of coffee and come back. Please do know that there are people who aren't exactly like you. Especially if Ubuntu is to say "Humanity towards others".
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X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4e798345b0867259 X-Google-Thread: 10a302,374de677035b4b32 X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,4e798345b0867259 X-Google-Thread: faa3c,374de677035b4b32 X-Google-Thread: 10cbb9,603cf516a700084a X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,gid10a302,gidfcfb9,gidfaa3c,gid10cbb9,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!t8g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Summercool <Summercoolness@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,comp.os.linux.advocacy,24hoursupport.helpdesk,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:52:59 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 31 Message-ID: <1192575179.959473.33440@t8g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <1192529001.245772.85020@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1192557868.019180.120530@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <5nkdpcFijr2uU1@mid.individual.net> <1192559965.675705.53100@v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <jasin-5C95D2.13331716102007@mpls-nnrp-04.inet.qwest.net> <pan.2007.10.16.20.07.06.518627@nospam.invalid> <jasin-DF1951.14245316102007@mpls-nnrp-04.inet.qwest.net> <e3lfu4-ije.ln1@ridcully.ntlworld.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.228.83.254 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1192575180 9484 127.0.0.1 (16 Oct 2007 22:53:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:53:00 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <e3lfu4-ije.ln1@ridcully.ntlworld.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t8g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.228.83.254; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0