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[Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Stephane, thank you for testing. Windows appears as "Windows Boot
Manager" because that is the text returned by os-prober, presumably
because it literally looks for the Windows boot loader on a partition. I
suggest filing a bug with that project if you think it should be
changed.

machrider, I agree that the installer should tell the user when it is
going to wipe the entire hard drive. There are comments in the os-prober
scripts to the effect "this is just a best effort, and will miss stuff".
The patch I posted in comment #80 (ubiquity-better-desc.patch ) changes
the descriptions to say that the hard drive will be wiped. It would be
good to have an extra confirmation that the user understands their data
really will be wiped.

The multiple drives auto-partition also still needs to be fixed or
blocked. I don't have any insight into what the maintainers of Ubiquity
want to do about that (or about adding an extra confirmation), perhaps
they will reply and let us know (imho the maintainers have been rather
quiet, considering this is a serious bug that has been known about for 9
months and resulted in many people having their drives wiped, I would
have thought this bug worthy of more attention).

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Title:
  Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions

Status in elementary OS:
  New
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ubuntu-livecd-image” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged
Status in “ubuntu-livecd-image” source package in Trusty:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Brand new Samsung laptop with UEFI. I had installed 13.04 Ubuntu but on reboot I never saw the 'grub' style menu. It just kept going into Windows 8.1.  So I got the 13.10 version (64 bit) and choose "Reinstall Ubuntu" (That may not be the exact text)
  It removed all the partiions including the recovery partitions. I do have a backup for the windows install, but I was very surprised that this happened.
  On a positive note I now have Ububtu up and running on my machine. 
  This is not my first time with Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu alongside WinXp, Vista and Windows 7. I've used Ubuntu desktop for over 6 years.
  If you would like me to try something to replicate this. .. I could shrink my existing partion make another one - reinstall and see if it whacks that one. I can do this now .. I'm still moving into this laptop so starting over is not so bad.

  Steve Devine

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