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 Media Direct caused me yet more troubles yesterday. It seems it's a little silver kill switch next to the power button. I'd like to know who designed the hack that is the media direct boot process, so I can get them fired. You should not be able to destroy your operating system(s) and lose all your data by pressing a button just above your keyboard. It's recoverable, but not by Joe user, and that's not the point. The point is that it shouldn't do that.
I had hoped maybe it would keep itself to itself for the most part, seeing as I left it alone as I reinstalled everything. But no. I pushed the button yesterday out of morbid curiosity, and it showed the splash screen and booted into windows. So far so good, that's what it did before I installed linux too. Then I rebooted, and found that it came straight into windows, my linux option had gone. Obviously it'd messed up the boot loader (grub). So I popped in a live CD and the debug process began.
I eventually figured out that it had destroyed a couple of my linux partitions and pasted a new one over the top of my vista and recovery partitions as well as wrecking grub. Nice. No way could it have used that partition it still has at the end of the drive, you know? I reconstructed the partitions using testdisk (had to do a painfully long full scan to get them all), reinstalled grub, and things were pretty much back to normal. I say it lightly, but that took all evening. Windows only started second try. I find it's best not to question why.
Please don't push the kill switch.
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