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Article #285Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive
From: rodolfo.garcia44
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:04
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:04
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On Oct 16, 6:03 am, Summercool <Summercooln...@gmail.com> wrote: > After installing Ubuntu, it seemed that everything on my Drive C: was > lost. > > After hours of trying, it really turned out I lost EVERYTHING on my C: > drive. > > So I had to reformat the whole C: drive, and reinstall Vista on it. > > I lost all my bookmarks, in both IE and Firefox. > > I needed to reinstall every single application. > > I needed to reinstall all security update for Vista all over again. > > I wasted at least 5, 6 hours. > > How can "Ubuntu - Humanity towards others" erases people's whole hard > drive without a single warning? > > Think about it, some people may lose tens or hundreds of hours of > work, or 4, 5 years of photos and memories, just because Ubuntu erases > whole hard drive without warning. > > The following is the install option snapshot: IT NEVER warns you the > content in drive C: will be totally erased. What's more, it is set as > the DEFAULT ACTION. And it says it is "GUIDED": > > http://aycu03.webshots.com/image/32522/2001738602340396146_rs.jpg > > I see that intermixed at the last install info page, it is said that > some partition on your hard drive will get erased. But how do I know > it isn't some partition that Ubuntu will create for me? Why not just > say "it means your whole hard drive's content will be erased" -- best > right after people click the "partition for whole drive" option. > > When it asked "How would you like to partition your hard drive", > choosing "Use entire drive" seems like "Yes, I want to partition my > entire C: drive and just make it dual boot with whatever OS that is > already there". And turned out actually it means, "use my whole C > drive and erase everything in it." > > Humanity towards others -- yes, when you make the software, think > about it can be you, your children in the future, or someone not as > skilled as you who will be using it. People don't have time to read > thousands of words of warning and note for the installation. Just > spend a little time to warn time before doing something as destructive > as erasing the whole hard drive. What do you expect? You didn't read the mountains of documentation that come with the typical Linux distribution, all via Google of course. Before you even begin to think about installing Linux, you must do your homework. You must learn about partitioning, the dev structure and all kinds of interesting stuff like that. You see, Linux is not like Windows. Linux assumes you have a brain, which obviously you don't. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Next time read the How-To's and Wikis before you damage your system.
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