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I knew someone who, in the days of Windows 3.1, managed to accidentally invoke "format c:" from inside Microsoft Word - I was in the same room as them when they did it and heard the cries for help. What they couldn't do was explain to me what they had done to accompish such a feat.

As Windows was probably installed on C it probably didn't do any real damage, did it?

If I remember correctly, that was before Windows started protecting boot volume.

To be more precise, NT had file locking enforced by the OS unlike DOS.

Pool of Radiance had a bug where the uninstaller would wipe your hard drive. Oops.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q4/pool_of_radiance/pool-1....

Okay, that is not the pool of radiance I played as a kid.

It's a DELTREE on %whateveritis%

and the entire windows directory, and the entire users directory, and ...

It was only deleting /usr, which doesn't contain home directories or config files.

I suppose that /usr does store a good chunk of what the Windows directory has in it though.

Sorry, was thinking of the awful `rm -rf /` variant...

In other Unix flavors, /home may be an alias to /usr/home.