[Bug 1467346] [NEW] Partition tool of 15.04 install script bricked SSD, conflict between UEFI/Legacy boot might be a factor...

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So, I don't fully understand the differences between 'legacy' boot and
'efi/uefi' boot modes, but what I do know is that I had my bios set to
'legacy' boot by default, it seems.

I was running windows 8.1 on my Dell E6530.

I tried to install ubuntu 15.04.

In the boot menu, I had to select to boot off of the USB in UEFI mode.

I tried to create a partition using the install script's tool for doing
so.

I had 80gb out of 240gb free. I tried to reduce the 240gb partition down
to 200gb, and make the remaining 40gb into an ext4 partition.

I initially got a pop up telling me that it seemed my other OS was not a
UEFI installed OS, so I may have trouble with grub or something. I hit
'back', I think, and got some I/O errors. I hit ignore, as several alert
windows popped up notifying me of I/O errors.

I don't remember all the details of what is next. I think I tried to do
it again, and then clicked skip this time, or something, and then got
several I/O errors popping up, one after another.

Finally, I got an alert that install had failed.

When I restarted my computer, it was gone. No ability to boot into
windows.

Go ahead and liveboot into ubuntu, figuring it's just a matter of
restoring the original partitions.

Talk through it with a guy on IRC. Powercycle. He confirms with me that
it isn't a faulty SATA port through a series of steps.

Note that when I do the liveboot, I see the verbose booting read 'ata
error -=16' repeatedly or something... That's the closest I get to
seeing the computer even try to identify it.

A lot of people seem to scoff initially, saying you can't brick a drive
this way. But some bug somewhere caused something. The idea of a random
drive failure at just the moment I started doing a partition seems very
unlikely.

This is an OCZ ARC 100 240gb. I purchased it a few months ago new. It
has served me well and flawlessly until this moment.

And it was $100, and I am very sad to be lacking it.

Luckily, most of my files were kept on an external drive; still, it had
all of my software, and many, many hours of work in its own right.

** Affects: ubiquity
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: 15.04 bot-comment harddrive install legacy partition ssd uefi
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Partition tool of 15.04 install script bricked SSD, conflict between UEFI/Legacy boot might be a factor...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1467346
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