That's the confusing part, it's certainly possible to wipe out a partition by accident during install but to have it magically overwrite data at a later date is very odd.
A day or so later, I tried to install some sound drivers in Ubuntu and somehow managed to uninstall xwindows entirely (I learnt to read and think before typing stuff in off a web site :)
A day later I rebuilt from the windows install disk and left things alone. I keep Linux on my servers, it's much happier there!
Either that or he's just confusing MBR and MFT. His English is dubious at various stages, so it might as well be. Still, not a HN-worthy post, I wonder how it managed to hit the front-page -- everyone on holiday already?