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Originally Posted by Stompy
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.
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Vista does have an area upon install where it asks you where you would like for it to install itself. Were you maybe going too fast that you missed it?
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