Does this mean it will delete everything on my personal laptop's drive?

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Aliraj
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Does this mean it will delete everything on my personal laptop's drive?

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I dont want to delete anything on my Windows(C:) or Local Disk (E:)! Is that what its asking permission to do?

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BillG
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Re: Does this mean it will delete everything on my personal laptop's drive?

Post by BillG »

No, The message comes from KALI, not from Windows, so it is referring to the "hard drive partitions" of the vm.
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Re: Does this mean it will delete everything on my personal laptop's drive?

Post by Aliraj »

I see! Thank you, BillG! I just wanted to be doubly sure!
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Re: Does this mean it will delete everything on my personal laptop's drive?

Post by mpack »

It would be a rather big security hole if code running inside a VM could wipe the host's hard drive...
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