Installation overwrote windows installation too easily

[Bart Silverstrim]

Ashley Benton wrote:

> Yes there is a warning. It is a little difficult to understand at least the
> first time but you know that if you use the entire hard drive everything
> that is already on it is deleted. I guess you could add that Windows is on
> the hard drive for the completely not knowledgeable people but they would
> certainly press enter no matter what.
> And no Ubuntu is not on the hard drive anymore after a complete restore of
> Windows. It didn't find its partition and recreate one deleting everything
> else. So when I reinstall Windows with the cd I loose Ubuntu (and yes there
> is a warning).

Depends on the installer. There's the "standard" Windows installer 
(although it won't tell you you have XYZ installed, it will warn about 
data loss) and there are vendor-specific restores that will wipe the 
entire drive to a "pristine" factory state.