Installation overwrote windows installation too easily

[Ashley Benton]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com
> wrote:

> 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.
>

Anybody can get it wrong that why you are ask to do a back up before to try
anything. Doing it or not is the person own decision. I did it before I
installed Ubuntu the first time and it was a great idea because my hard
drive broke a few weeks later. (nothing to do with Ubuntu). I am still doing
regular back up and put everything on DVDs when I want to update the system
(7.10 to 8.04) like that in case of trouble I just redoo a clean install.
And yes I use the vendor-specific restore which bring me back the computer
as it was when it was sold. No way to do anything else after my son got a
virus on the computer, nothing is working anymore. No worries about it the
data are on my computer using Ubuntu and his is empty except for his games.

Meg

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