Comment 22 for bug 1325786

Hi people,

I want to report another problem with LMDE 201403.
Please DO NOT INSTALL IT if you have partitioned drive with data and/or another OS!

The stupid installation process guides you to the step where you have to choose the way of installation - "automatic" when MintInstall detects your drive or "manual, for advanced users" ...

I have read regarding deleting of all partitions, first I selected "manual option", sda for grub install and got error "first mount" - very nice- there is no option to manually mount as in previous version of LMDE (first time installed LMDE due to installation problems of normal Mint version, no one after Mint7 leave your data/partitions untouched).
Well, after next click the installation process stopped...
GParted shows all my partition, still...
Restart the installation with "automatic" option but stopped at "Mint detected empty drive"... back button and checked my partitions with GParted- a single unused/empty partition remained...

OK I said, not my lucky night, once I have 2 OS I will abort the LMDE installation...
Reboot my laptop and.... surprise, MBR was destroyed by super-stable-easy MintInstall...

Boot with recovery disk - no valid partition, Acronix does not show any partitioned disk- just my empty HDD...

Thanks to HirenBoot CD which give my data a chance by scanning for existing partition and recovered all my NTFS stored data.
Reboot- Windows UP, my data safe.

I would like to ask developers why is so hard to keep users data safe?
Why the installation process is so dangerous, even for upgrade?
This problem you have for long time, Mint7 was last safe one, LMDE I use for several years has the same problem "with automatic" now the manual installation also is defective.

I will keep my MintInstall for few days waiting for answer/hint/how to... or something else, if not I think with all regrets my experience with Mint (and Ubuntu) is approach to the end.

Sorry Mint, you are getting old even not being young- just kid&retired.