Comment 430 for bug 1

Pitwalker; Nobody with a little computer experience, and a rough understanding of the installer language should risk loosing data unless they choose to ignore a warning that they should understand..

The program which installs Ubuntu from the live CD is called Ubiquity. If the warnings are not clear to you, please file a bug against ubiquity and provide an example of how the installer can universally communicate the risk of data loss, and instruct the user on how they can prevent loss of valuable data.

In general, the easier it is to loose large amounts of data, the clearer the warnings need to be. However, ultimately, any user who has valuable data must either make backups or loose it (hardware failures and user errors will always eventually eat data which is not backed up).