Installation overwrote windows installation too easily

[James Takac]

Hi Meg

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 01:29:09 Ashley Benton wrote:
> 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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Exactly. Anyone thinking they will never mess up during the process is only 
fooling one person ................. themselves!!!!!!!!!!

James