Hi, my name is François Faubert.

When installing Windows on my iMac using BootCamp, I deleted my whole Mac hard drive ending up with XP taking up 100% of my computer without even noticing.

I had the preconceived notion that BootCamp would spoof Microsoft’s installer into thinking there is only one hard-drive using up the manually allocated space. I also expected BootCamp to somehow protect OSX’s files using special user file rights or methods that would protect it from the Microsoft installer. Windows Setup found 3 partitions (wtf?) that I went on deleting carelessly. Just for the record, I really think this is my fault in a obvious lack of paying attention to what I was doing.

Fortunately, I’m the happy owner of Time Capsule and Leopard so my whole Mac was backed up to the minute. Thing is, in all the excitement that comes with mistakenly wiping off your drive, I had forgot I could use that backup.

In a nice implementation of their solution, Apple noticed I had a Time Capsule running during Leopard’s installation process and asked me to use the backup it had found. Things went very smoothly afterwards. After a long wait, all my stuff was back where it had been before my mistake. I only had to change the file system from NTFS to whatever Mac uses previously in the process.

Apart for the wireless not working easily with my Xbox 360 (which in the end is Microsoft’s fault) and sometimes having connection hiccups I really only have good words for my Time Capsule.