Installation overwrote windows installation too easily

[Ashley Benton]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

> Ken McLennan wrote:
> > 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
> >
>     Loose a lot of Ubuntu converts that way. A Windows user knows little
> or even less than that about a computer. You ask them how many hard
> drives, they ask "what is a hard drive?".
>
>    In a perfect world everyone would be born computer smart and then
> you can ask them to use $sudo fdisk -l and decide from the output. That
> was how early Linux was done. A README said "make a partition and give
> it an ext2 file system". Then load the system from the cd-rom. Then
> there were very few Linux users :-)
>
>
> Karl
>
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Effectively I didn't know anything when I came from Windows but it is very
difficult to delete Windows by accident with the live cd. If you say write
to the entire hard drive and read the answer it tells you that everything
will be deleted. If you use only part of the hard drive you can't leave less
than the minimum space for Windows.
If you look at the opposite and have to reinstall Windows it doesn't leave
you a choice completely delete everything. You don't have the option of
leaving Ubuntu on the partition (at least not when you don't use a
partitioner to reinstall, and that I still don't know how to do),.
My point is if you get a virus in your windows partition and reinstall from
the Windows cd Ubuntu will be removed without other visible option but if
you have a problem with Ubuntu usually Windows is safe as long as you read
before to press OK.

Meg

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