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Stuart · 18-06-2018, 11:20

Memo to self: Never do anything involving creating/deleting partitions while tired.

I did so yesterday. I needed a bootable USB for something I was doing, and I already had my laptop booted from a USB stick, as the software I was using to create the bootable USB stick would not run on the version of macOS installed on my laptop.

So, I booted up from the external USB, ran the software, selected the drive to make bootable and let the software run. Then, I realised it had deleted all the partitions on the laptop's internal SSD. I'd selected the internal SSD instead of the correct USB stick. Unfortunately, the only checking the software does is what drive you booted from, so it happily repartitioned my SSD with no question. Thanks to GDPR, I had deleted a lot of stuff from the laptop, and had no work related stuff on it. Any important personal stuff is backed up to iCloud.

Still annoying though. I've got OSX back up and running, but I need Windows 10 on there as well..

18-06-2018, 11:20	#5362
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: Moans and Pet Hates part 8 Memo to self: Never do anything involving creating/deleting partitions while tired. I did so yesterday. I needed a bootable USB for something I was doing, and I already had my laptop booted from a USB stick, as the software I was using to create the bootable USB stick would not run on the version of macOS installed on my laptop. So, I booted up from the external USB, ran the software, selected the drive to make bootable and let the software run. Then, I realised it had deleted all the partitions on the laptop's internal SSD. I'd selected the internal SSD instead of the correct USB stick. Unfortunately, the only checking the software does is what drive you booted from, so it happily repartitioned my SSD with no question. Thanks to GDPR, I had deleted a lot of stuff from the laptop, and had no work related stuff on it. Any important personal stuff is backed up to iCloud. Still annoying though. I've got OSX back up and running, but I need Windows 10 on there as well..