Ubuntu
usb-creator package

  1. Bug #457737
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 457737

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Chrescht (sekateur) wrote :

I wanted to create a startup disk on the first partition of an external USB hard drive../dev/sdb1.
Unfortunately by selecting /dev/sdb1 and clicking format, the whole drive sdb was formatted and not only the first partition.

I find this to be a serious bug since whole partitions of data are wiped (!).
Fortunately there exist magic tools like testdisk..

Karmic
2.6.31-17-generic
i686 GNU/Linux

cheers.