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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14-02-18 11:01 AM, Tim Tisdall
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<div dir="ltr">Are you talking about using the recovery partition
or installation disk, or just during the regular usage of
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I used the recovery partition to reset Windows to factory default
before upgrading to 8.1. I then discovered my partitions had been
moved around without any warning. Go figure.<br>
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<div>Unfortunately there's always something that requires me to
go back to Windows so I keep it around just in case.</div>
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After I removed Windows, I got a company version of Windows 7 for
testing and put it in Virtual Box. There Microsoft cannot screw up
my computer.<br>
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Randy<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Randy
Jonasz <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div class="h5">On 14-02-18 09:57 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:<br>
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I had something strange and quite annoying happen
yesterday and wanted to know if anyone else has ever
had a similar experience...<br>
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I ran the recovery partition on my Acer Aspire laptop.
I was given 3 options: reset to factory settings,
re-install windows but keep user settings, and exit.
I chose "exit". However, after the system rebooted I
was then shown the grub recovery prompt with a message
that the partition didn't exist.<br>
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After some investigation with a bootable USB drive I
discovered that my Linux partition had been deleted!
Thankfully testdisk was able to recover the partition
for me, but what happened?? The recovery partition
seems to go ahead and delete your Linux partitions
without asking.<br>
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Yeah, I had a similar experience with Windows but it didn't
delete partitions it just moved them around, so swap was no
longer sda3 but sda6. I deleted windows from my computer
and have been worry free ever since.<br>
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Randy<br>
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-Tim<br>
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