[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

[David D Lowe]

Hello Joe. I really feel for you. Losing personal memories like that can
be heart-wrenching. There may be ways to recover your data, although
there are no guarantees (unless you have a back-up). If I were you, I
would seek help on any of the official or community support channels of
Ubuntu.

http://www.ubuntu.com/support

I would recommend ubuntuforums.org, askubuntu.com and the #ubuntu IRC
channel.

Since this bug has been fixed in the latest versions of USB Startup Disk
Creator, you're unlikely to find help in this bug tracker.

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Title:
  USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting
  disks

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: usb-creator

  Something horrible happened to me today, but with testdisk and quick
  reaction i got all my files back.

  If you have usb-stick and a removable harddisk attached, and you dont
  look at it at 100 % (difference between /dev/sdc and sdb) you can
  format your harddisk without beeing asked again, just with one click!

  I consider myself as an experienced user, but this happened to me
  today (totaly my own fault) But still, it would be great if before
  formatting the stick you ask again:

  "Are you shure you want do format /dev/sdx &PARTITIONDESCRIPTIONS this
  will delete all your data at this drive"

  thats a typical thing you suspect to be asked before really formatting
  a drive. Hope you consider this.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct  5 19:40:00 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: usb-creator-common 0.2.9
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

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