[Bug 1073968] Re: Install over Windows 8 partition erased whole HDD.

2013-05-03 Thread Micheal Walls
After getting the machine dual-booting both Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7, I realized this machine is booting much much differently than any of my other machines. It's using a UEFI chip, not a BIOS chip. It's currently booting both Windows 7 and Ubuntu in EFI mode (With SecureBoot disabled, since Win

[Bug 1073968] Re: Install over Windows 8 partition erased whole HDD.

2013-05-02 Thread Micheal Walls
I think, maybe if the description of that option in Ubiquity was changed from this: "Erase Ubuntu 13.04 and Reinstall" - "Warning: This will delete all your Ubuntu 13.04 programs, documents, photos, music, and any other files." To this: "Erase ENTIRE DISK and Reinstall" - "Warning: This will de

[Bug 1073968] Re: Install over Windows 8 partition erased whole HDD.

2013-05-02 Thread Micheal Walls
This bug also also affects me, using Ubuntu 13.04. I previously had Kubuntu 13.04 installed alongside Windows 7. My disk was using a GUID Partition Table. Windows 7 was installed first, using sda1 for the boot loader, sda2 for recovery and sda4 for data. sda5 was for Kubuntu 13.04 data and sda6 w