Comment 24 for bug 1325786

I felt it was necessary to post my experience with this bug as well. I was dual booting with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I decided to move to Linux Mint 17 and the installer correctly detected Ubuntu but said nothing about Windows. Therefore, I wrongly (& now regretfully) assumed that Mint would wipe only Ubuntu and install itself in that partition. I was shocked after a while to discover that my entire disk had been wiped and all my data was gone including expensive purchased software licenses in Windows. Thankfully I had only recently backed up all of my important data and what I did lose was not irreplaceable. I am not new to the Linux environment by any means but I am no expert either. I completely agree with the original bug report - that while I am partly to be blamed, the installer should have warned me more forcefully as to what it was actually going to do and it should also have detected Windows. It is only common sense to assume that another OS won't be completely wiped that easily.

 That said, I am not complaining here. Just relating my experience so that something good will come out of it. I am loving Qiana and I just made a donation as well.