DrPotoroo
March 21st, 2014, 12:48 AM
Recently purchased a surface pro with the plan of primarily running some flavour of linux and having the option to boot to windows for a small handful of situations where it is impossible to do something without windows.
I shrank the windows partition and installed ubuntu 13.10 first. No problems except I have a specific requirement of my window manager that unity won't meet. So I started looking at alternatives. Tried mint but had wifi issues and the surface pro would never power off on shut down. Next I decided to try xubuntu.
Running off the usb xubuntu looked promising. So I ran the installer. Now, when it gave me options to "refresh" ubuntu, wipe and reinstall ubuntu or "do something else" I would usually choose "do something else." However, I thought for simplicity I would try the wipe & reinstall option. Although the description only referred to clearing the ubuntu partition, I thought there was a risk it might wipe windows but assumed it would tell me exactly what it was going to do to my partitions at a later step and have me confirm.
I was wrong.
The install reformatted AND repartitioned my entire drive, and gave me no further warning it would do so. Windows gone. Windows recovery partitions gone.
Anyway, it was a brand new computer and my wife also has one with intact recover partition. So I didn't lose much other than time.
But I could have.
Should I be reporting this as a bug?
I shrank the windows partition and installed ubuntu 13.10 first. No problems except I have a specific requirement of my window manager that unity won't meet. So I started looking at alternatives. Tried mint but had wifi issues and the surface pro would never power off on shut down. Next I decided to try xubuntu.
Running off the usb xubuntu looked promising. So I ran the installer. Now, when it gave me options to "refresh" ubuntu, wipe and reinstall ubuntu or "do something else" I would usually choose "do something else." However, I thought for simplicity I would try the wipe & reinstall option. Although the description only referred to clearing the ubuntu partition, I thought there was a risk it might wipe windows but assumed it would tell me exactly what it was going to do to my partitions at a later step and have me confirm.
I was wrong.
The install reformatted AND repartitioned my entire drive, and gave me no further warning it would do so. Windows gone. Windows recovery partitions gone.
Anyway, it was a brand new computer and my wife also has one with intact recover partition. So I didn't lose much other than time.
But I could have.
Should I be reporting this as a bug?