Acer recovery partition

[Randy Jonasz]

On 14-02-18 09:57 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
> I had something strange and quite annoying happen yesterday and wanted 
> to know if anyone else has ever had a similar experience...
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
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.

Randy



> -Tim

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