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[Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@xxxxxxxxx>]

@Colin Will your changes fix the problems with multiple drives?
calculate_operating_systems returns a list of operating systems without
location (drive or partition), then calculate_autopartitioning_options
uses that list to decide how to proceed *as if all of the detected
operating systems were on a single drive*. Being told that a drive is
being wiped is not enough, since it is not clear to the user which drive
is being wiped. Copy/paste from previous discussion in case you missed
it:

    - a two disk setup of first disk with (undetected) EFI Windows 8 and
second disk with Ubuntu is handled as a 'single OS Ubuntu upgrade', and
when the user clicks to upgrade, the Windows disk is wiped.

    - If there are two disks, and os-prober shows no operating systems
on sda and Ubuntu on sdb, then the Ubiquity "Install" screen will have
title "Erase Ubuntu 12.04 and reinstall" and will incorrectly select
drive "sda" (Ubuntu is not on sda). If the user clicks continue, the
installer will go ahead and overwrite all partitions on the first disk
while claiming to be "erasing Ubuntu 12.04". It does say that "4
partitions will be deleted" (another bug, it seems to include free space
gaps in the partition count) but it's easy to miss that text, given the
reassuring big font text "Erase Ubuntu xx and reinstall".

(Also, there are tests for autopartitioning in tests/test_ubi_partman.py
- if you are familiar with the test code here it might be useful to add
some test cases to cover the error cases documented in this bug report
- multiple partitions and/or drives, os-proper  potentially returning
nothing - so that future code changes will not reintroduce these bugs.)

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Title:
  Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions

Status in elementary OS:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

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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