2008-12-05, 22:26
So...wow. Uh, where to begin?
Okay. I was attempting to do an XBMC live installation on an iPod I had sitting around...wanted to see if I could boot from it for poops and grins.
Made me a live CD.
Booted it in my main desktop PC.
Selected option 0. (USB INSTALLATION)
(Oh, and I also made damned sure to unplug my two external HDD's that held all my movies)
The computer thought, thought some more, and then asked me which drive I wanted to choose. I looked at the file size, and I'm almost *positive* that the size shown was 2xxx mb. Regardless, it was the only drive shown.
So, I inputted the drive number that coincided with the drive.
The screen began to output "deleting partitions"..."creating partitions"
It was at about this point where I began to hear the HARD DRIVE chattering furiously over the noise of my CD-ROM.
It took me a second to realize what the hell was happening...about three seconds into the "formatting drive" dialogue.
I powered off my PC. Powered it on. Shook my head sadly as I realized I just screwed my main HDD in a major way.
What does this teach us?
I think the USB installer could use a FEW more dummy checks...
Maybe put in something to determine that the drive IS in fact a USB drive, and add a BIG WARNING if something other than USB is used.
Too...howabout changing the filesize calculator to Gigabytes? I know the math isn't hard, but this install is most likely going to be put on flash drives > than one Gig, so I don't see what it would hurt.
I'm not blaming you guys. I take full responsibility for not reading the screen closer. I was in a rush, and I am now suffering the consequences of it.
But, perhaps to save others the cataclysmic fuxup that is re-partitioning AND formatting a hard drive...well, maybe add a few more checks? Please?
And, on that note...every source file for everything I've ever done is now locked in a hard drive who's fate I'm still trying to determine. How ironic that the only other PC with a SATA drive is the HTPC I just built, and was trying to get a LIVE build working for...
Okay. I was attempting to do an XBMC live installation on an iPod I had sitting around...wanted to see if I could boot from it for poops and grins.
Made me a live CD.
Booted it in my main desktop PC.
Selected option 0. (USB INSTALLATION)
(Oh, and I also made damned sure to unplug my two external HDD's that held all my movies)
The computer thought, thought some more, and then asked me which drive I wanted to choose. I looked at the file size, and I'm almost *positive* that the size shown was 2xxx mb. Regardless, it was the only drive shown.
So, I inputted the drive number that coincided with the drive.
The screen began to output "deleting partitions"..."creating partitions"
It was at about this point where I began to hear the HARD DRIVE chattering furiously over the noise of my CD-ROM.
It took me a second to realize what the hell was happening...about three seconds into the "formatting drive" dialogue.
I powered off my PC. Powered it on. Shook my head sadly as I realized I just screwed my main HDD in a major way.
What does this teach us?
I think the USB installer could use a FEW more dummy checks...
Maybe put in something to determine that the drive IS in fact a USB drive, and add a BIG WARNING if something other than USB is used.
Too...howabout changing the filesize calculator to Gigabytes? I know the math isn't hard, but this install is most likely going to be put on flash drives > than one Gig, so I don't see what it would hurt.
I'm not blaming you guys. I take full responsibility for not reading the screen closer. I was in a rush, and I am now suffering the consequences of it.
But, perhaps to save others the cataclysmic fuxup that is re-partitioning AND formatting a hard drive...well, maybe add a few more checks? Please?
And, on that note...every source file for everything I've ever done is now locked in a hard drive who's fate I'm still trying to determine. How ironic that the only other PC with a SATA drive is the HTPC I just built, and was trying to get a LIVE build working for...