@Stephane - do you plan to merge ubiquity-better-desc.patch or have any
comments regarding it? There are setups where os-prober will fail to
find a partition with an operating system, and go ahead wiping all the
partitions on the drive without telling the user. It is bad idea to wipe
the whole drive without telling the user. Also, what is to be done about
the auto-partitioning not working on multiple drive systems?

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Title:
  Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions

Status in elementary OS:
  New
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubuntu-livecd-image” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged
Status in “ubuntu-livecd-image” source package in Trusty:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Brand new Samsung laptop with UEFI. I had installed 13.04 Ubuntu but on 
reboot I never saw the 'grub' style menu. It just kept going into Windows 8.1.  
So I got the 13.10 version (64 bit) and choose "Reinstall Ubuntu" (That may not 
be the exact text)
  It removed all the partiions including the recovery partitions. I do have a 
backup for the windows install, but I was very surprised that this happened.
  On a positive note I now have Ububtu up and running on my machine. 
  This is not my first time with Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu alongside 
WinXp, Vista and Windows 7. I've used Ubuntu desktop for over 6 years.
  If you would like me to try something to replicate this. .. I could shrink my 
existing partion make another one - reinstall and see if it whacks that one. I 
can do this now .. I'm still moving into this laptop so starting over is not so 
bad.

  Steve Devine

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