To be fair, it does warn you about this: > My drive was completely erased ! > > Yup. This is how the software works, and you are warned before choosing the > drive. Backup any file on your drive before using the software if necessary. > And use a dedicated, small drive (a 4 GB USB key is incredibly cheap these > days). > >
Paul On 4 Aug 2011, at 18:32, Paul Owen wrote: > A word of caution on this program. I downloaded it a couple of days ago and > used it on a partition on my external 750GB FireWire drive. > > After pointing it to the partition I wanted it to use, it proceeded to wipe > the HD completely, removing all my partitions, and installed the Lion boot > disk onto a new single partition which could not be resized! > > Fortunately I have more than one backup - but it could quite easily have > been a disaster. > > Paul Owen > > >> From: Graham Street <[email protected]> >> Organization: Streets Ahead >> Reply-To: <[email protected]> >> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:39:30 +0100 >> To: SMUG <[email protected]> >> Subject: [sussex_mug] Make a Lion boot disk >> >> I spotted this article in today's reading. Might be useful for some of >> you. I haven't moved to Lion so can't verify that this works or whether >> there are better methods around for doing this ... >> http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/03/why-pay-for-a-lion-boot-disk-use-this-app-to- >> make-your-own/ >> which then leads to http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
