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giantpinkrobots / bootqt

Bootqt - Bootable USB writer using Qt.
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Boot drive failsafe #6

Open JakeBusler opened 2 weeks ago

JakeBusler commented 2 weeks ago

Had an issue with my thumb drive while using bootqt and wasn't paying attention. Bootqt ended up wiping my entire main drive without so much as a prompt warning that it was attempting to clear the active partition. Could prevent others from similar mishaps

giantpinkrobots commented 2 weeks ago

Oh boy, that's a terrifying thought. To be clear, do you remember selecting your flash drive correctly, and it nonetheless wiped your boot drive? Or did you select your boot drive yourself? If it's the former then there would be a very serious issue. Even if it's the latter though ideally the main boot drive should not even come up in the list. There would be no reason to have that option.