Comment 83 for bug 1265192

Another victim of the bug here. I couldn't find this bug report earlier, so I filed my own (Bug #1358543). It seems any option other than "alongside" and "custom" will wipe the hard drive without clear indication to the user. As mentioned in previous posts, sites such as ubuntuforums and askubuntu (even right here in the "answer" section of launchpad) show that there are a lot of victims.

I don't understand why such an important issue is not fixed after being triaged for almost 5 months. Simply replacing the existing text with a clear description, such as the one provided by Chris, and putting up a version of the installer/live-CD would have saved so many people from the devastating realization and the potentially time consuming data recovery process. The installation guide should be updated as well (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/install-ubuntu-desktop).