[Bug 1414201] Re: installer has a misleading option which formats entire hdd
Phillip Susi
psusi at ubuntu.com
Sat Jan 24 04:07:19 UTC 2015
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1265192 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1265192
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1265192
Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions
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Title:
installer has a misleading option which formats entire hdd
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I had 13.04 desktop and wanted to upgrade to Studio 14.04.1. I booted
using the live USB. The installer detected 13.04 and provided the
option to "Erase 13.04 and install". This led me to believe that my
Windows 8.1 and two more NTFS partitions will remain untouched and
ONLY 13.04 will be erased. However, the installer failed saying
"couldn't install grub on /target" and then a bug report window popped
up which wouldn't close.
When I rebooted, the BIOS couldn't detect any bootable device. I
booted using the live usb again only to find out that the entire HDD
was formatted by the installer. All my 1TB worth of data is lost.
This is a Samsung laptop with UEFI boot. Now I can only boot with the
live USB since the installer fails to write any MBR. The installer
wiped out my recovery parition as well - I can't recover my Windows
8.1 installation.
Why doesn't the installer specifically confirm whether it should wipe
my other partitions? Why isn't there an option to backup the current
partition table so that the recovery tools can attempt to recover the
data?
Now I won't trust any installer to be "intelligent" enough to carry
out the installation automatically.
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