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Stompy · 03-02-2007, 08:30 PM

Just a warning for those using Vista or wanting to experiment with it: unplug all extra hard drives or devices from your machine upon installing Vista.

It may pick a random hard drive or partition to format to use as the MBR and it will NOT warn you or ask your permission.

I just lost an entire drive's worth of data because of Vista's stupid installer. Basically I have my main XP install partition, then on the same drive, an empty 20 gig partition on which I put Vista.

I have a third IDE drive I use as an encrypted trueCrypt volume... and this is what the installer randomly chose to format.

After vista was done installing, I was wondering why my system booted directly into XP with no OS selection menu... lo and behold, when I went to mount my trueCrypt volume, I saw a bunch of boot loader BS. For no reason whatsoever, it picked this volume, formatted it, and tried to put a bootloader on it. WTF?

Needless to say, I'm very fucking pissed that they would program such a thing to randomly format your stuff without asking you.

03-02-2007, 08:30 PM	#20 (permalink)
Stompy Banned from being Banned Location: Donkey	Just a warning for those using Vista or wanting to experiment with it: unplug all extra hard drives or devices from your machine upon installing Vista. It may pick a random hard drive or partition to format to use as the MBR and it will NOT warn you or ask your permission. I just lost an entire drive's worth of data because of Vista's stupid installer. Basically I have my main XP install partition, then on the same drive, an empty 20 gig partition on which I put Vista. I have a third IDE drive I use as an encrypted trueCrypt volume... and this is what the installer randomly chose to format. After vista was done installing, I was wondering why my system booted directly into XP with no OS selection menu... lo and behold, when I went to mount my trueCrypt volume, I saw a bunch of boot loader BS. For no reason whatsoever, it picked this volume, formatted it, and tried to put a bootloader on it. WTF? Needless to say, I'm very fucking pissed that they would program such a thing to randomly format your stuff without asking you. __________________ I love lamp.