Chrome OS Flex Installation WARNING - IT WILL FORMAT ALL Hard Drives Attached During Installation !!
221Chrome OS Flex Installation WARNING - It Will Delete, Format And Erase All The Data On All Hard Drives Attached During Installation !! YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR FILES, BACKUPS, DATA, EVERYTHING!!!!
Thank you to Gus Alverte for bringing light to this problem in a comment on another video. Please show Gus some appreciation and give his comment a MASSIVE thumbs up here's the video, Gus's comment is the top pinned one https://youtu.be/nZdjWS-Nbf0
So the message here is very simple. Do not have any other drive attached to your computer when installing Chrome OS Flex. Only have the hard drive or SSD that is in the laptop of desktop, active.
TO BE CLEAR. If you have other drives attached to your computer when installing Chrome OS Flex, the Chrome OS Flex USB installer will delete all the attached hard drives, not just the one that you want to install it to. In fact. The Flex installer will actually install the OS to all the drives and not just delete and erase them.
This is not a problem for a computer that only has one drive attached, usually the internal drive. But do remember to back off any files that you may have on your drive before installing Flex, as you will lose all the data on the drive because Flex will erase and use the entire drive.
You can not install Chrome OS Flex at this point in time to a drive of your choice and you can't install it to a dedicated partition either.
This is not a problem when you are making a live boot Chrome OS Flex USB flash drive.
At this point in time you can not dual boot Chrome OS Flex with Windows on the same drive. You can dual boot but you have to use two drives and make sure that you disconnect your Windows boot, system drive when installing Chrome OS Flex to the second drive.
Here are some more of my Chrome OS Flex videos that you may find helpful:
How To Install Chrome OS Flex On A Windows Laptop Turn Your Laptop Into A Chrome OS Flex Chromebook
https://youtu.be/nZdjWS-Nbf0
How To Create A Chrome OS Flex Bootable USB Flash Drive Installer For Windows & Mac
https://youtu.be/x4k7FEeYsGg
Chrome OS Flex Live USB Stick Dual Boot Using An Old Slow Low Powered Windows Laptop
https://youtu.be/Le-IRMEA5oM
Here's my Android and Chrome playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWEIpCJMkBQ&list=PLleKChtNUwZQWlJamsq9cC2sP4X5XSPlR
Here's some links to USB flash drives & Chromebooks on Amazon, I personally use SanDisk for important stuff.
SanDisk USB Flash Drives https://geni.us/SandiskUSBFlashDrives
Other USB Flash Drives https://geni.us/USBFlashDrives
Chromebooks on Amazon: https://geni.us/ChromebooksOnAmazon
Here's some common boot keys.
Manufacturer Boot key
Acer F2
Apple Hold Option (next to the ⌘ key)
Asus Del
Dell F12
Gateway F1
HP F9
Intel F2
Lenovo F12
Toshiba F2 or F12
Other Try pressing Esc, any of F1-F12 keys, or Enter
Link to the Google Chrome OS Flex website:
https://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/
Hopefully, this is something that Google can change when they come the final release of Chrome OS Flex.
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