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

[Joe Carey]

I've been looking at some options.
I've since discovered that the files are indeed there, but recovery will take hours and hours and probably the purchase of another external hard drive.   I was able to lift a few mp3s out using photorec and I'm sure I can get the rest, minus the filenames that is.  So, for music it might mean downloading everything.  And with the new draconian law in Japan... well.  We'll see.  For convenience sake, I have a recovery program running off my old xp based laptop. At the very least, I know the data is there.

I appreciate your kind words.

-Joe

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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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