accidentally bootloaded the c drive

[badger112]

I accidentally bootloaded my c drive -windows!!! is there going to be a problem restarting my computer and if yes how can i fix it now

[saratoga]

There is no way anyone can answer this question without knowing which bootloader you installed, but it seems unlikely that the installer would let you do something that could damage your PC. 

[AlexP]

It likely just placed a file on your hard drive.  You can delete it.

[badger112]

it was the clip zip

[gevaerts]

Right. That just put a file named (I think) clppa.bin on your c: drive. It's totally harmless

[badger112]

Thanks everybody!!!
I just removed the file called clipza.bin and the folder .rockbox from the root of the c drive

[bluebrother]

(Ok, I'm a bit late but for explanation ...)

I accidentally bootloaded my c drive -windows!!! is there going to be a problem restarting my computer and if yes how can i fix it now

There is no problem.

Rockbox Utility basically supports two different types of bootloader installation (internally there are more, but that's not of importance for this question).
1. Write the bootloader to some hidden partition on the player. This mostly affects Ipods and some Sandisk players. In this case there are a couple of security measures to ensure you're not writing the bootloader to a disk that is not the player -- if the partition isn't found or looks wrong it will complain and abort the operation. There is also no way to force writing the bootloader in such cases. Accessing a partition directly is something that requires root / administrator permissions, which is why Rockbox Utility requires it. You can run it without as long as you're not trying to perform such a bootloader installation.
2. Place a file on disk. This is pretty much all other players. In most cases this requires an original firmware file that needs to be modified first, and the original firmware to perform a firmware upgrade. However, from a "disk" point of view it's just placing a file on disk. If you accidentially do this on the wrong drive just remove the file -- other systems (like Windows) can't do anything useful with those files. Except copying and deleting them

For the Clip Zip it's 2. Usually you can mess things up if you go for the manual installation method as described in the manual. But that isn't recommended

[[Saint]]

I'm wondering if RbUtil couldn't check the path and prompt if you're likely "doing it wrong (TM)"?


[Saint]

[saratoga]

It would probably be possible to check if the drive in question has a "windows" folder before installing, and suggest to the user that they're not doing it right.

[whiskers75]

Don't forget us Linux geeks.. although Linux users probably don't make that mistake.

[[Saint]]

Don't forget us Linux geeks.. although Linux users probably don't make that mistake.

I wouldn't put it past some of them.


[Saint]

[AlexP]

Don't forget us Linux geeks.. although Linux users probably don't make that mistake.

saratoga's suggestion would of course just protect against the majority of people selecting their main PC HDD.