Hmyeah, awful
I always make backups of my important stuff (Win partition and important work if there is some
).
I work in computer service and we often have ppl with shredded hard disks, but mainly due to technical problems.
The thing is, after such a thing happened they all want a very good backup concept.
There once was a lawyer who lost all his data on his HDD, consumer data and his whole accountancy stuff was on that one - with no backup...arf.
A boot disk that formats everything without confirmation is quite "special".
I have no idea who invented such a crap....