Installation overwrote windows installation too easily

[Ken McLennan]

G'day there One & All,

>     Alas there is no software I am aware of that can tell the difference 
> between Windows and any other data on a Hard Drive.
>   

    It doesn't have to determine any differences, nor to find what OSes 
are installed anywhere. It needs to halt the process, offer a dialog 
with an explicit warning to the user about what will happen and giving 
them an opportunity to back out just in case they DO have windows (or 
Solaris, or Fedora, or Mandriva, any other OS) installed. It doesn't 
matter whether they do or not, but should provide the warning for a 
worst case scenario.

    I doubt it would be difficult, just a dialog with a "Cancel & 
Return" option and a "Go Ahead and Nuke" option.

See ya,
Ken
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