Installation overwrote windows installation too easily

[Bart Silverstrim]

Ashley Benton wrote:

> 
> 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.

I was just pointing out in a conversation about the installers that 
vendors tweak their installers to wipe your computer to sales-state, 
while a full copy of Windows will ask you about your partition scheme 
and where and how to install Windows. That's all.