<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Bart Silverstrim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsilver@chrononomicon.com">bsilver@chrononomicon.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Ashley Benton wrote:<br>
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> Yes there is a warning. It is a little difficult to understand at least the<br>
> first time but you know that if you use the entire hard drive everything<br>
> that is already on it is deleted. I guess you could add that Windows is on<br>
> the hard drive for the completely not knowledgeable people but they would<br>
> certainly press enter no matter what.<br>
> And no Ubuntu is not on the hard drive anymore after a complete restore of<br>
> Windows. It didn't find its partition and recreate one deleting everything<br>
> else. So when I reinstall Windows with the cd I loose Ubuntu (and yes there<br>
> is a warning).<br>
<br>
</div>Depends on the installer. There's the "standard" Windows installer<br>
(although it won't tell you you have XYZ installed, it will warn about<br>
data loss) and there are vendor-specific restores that will wipe the<br>
entire drive to a "pristine" factory state.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
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.<br>
<br>Meg<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><font color="#888888"><br>
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