Tecra S3: issues of recovery dvd

Salvation;

I have a Tecra S3 120 model and its drive hard sata 80 GB has been partitioned to install debian and other BONE and have a backup only fat32 partition.

Tecra have a manual and a single DVD, the recovery DVDs. A long time, I decided to have a quick glance; I started, and oh surprise, tool recovery begins to format drive without my intervention.
Quickly I turned off.

I am fortunate because only first 20 GB seems to be lost, so I only lost partition winXP and no backups, and linux (knoppix and testdisk help me to redo the partition table and the man gpart show how to do a mbr backup me and restore).

Unfortunately, a second attempt gave me the same behavior of "recovery."
Now I reinstall Windows XP, and a look at DVD show me that, like other Toshiba (Quosmio F-20), this DVD has an 'expert' mode (I see the bitmat with the screen, in a folder).

I consider that the behavior by default as a danger bug, but:

1. How can I access the so-called "expert mode" before formatting?
2 and, very important, what is the image of ghost I have to choose for my 20 GB partition?
Perhaps these images are volumes of the same image? :

Thank you!

DVD series: PMR400461SP1
[01:37] debian: ~ # tree /cdrom/
/CDROM/
| - 03485000.CRC
| - 03485000.GHO 670 M 2005-09-28 12:54
| - 03485001.GHS 670 M 2005-09-28 12:47
| - 03485002.GHS 670 M 2005-09-28 12:52
| - 03485003.GHS 252 M 2005-09-28 12:54
| - G_INST
| | - BMP
| | | - MENU. BMP---> here, I can see to choose "expert mode".
| | | - NO_TOSPC. BMP
| | | - PARTFORM. BMP
| | | - RESTART. BMP
| | ' - SP.txt
| | - BACK
| | | - ATTRIB. EXE
| | | - CHOICE.COM
| | | - MODE.COM
| | | - XCOPY. EXE
| | ' - XCOPY32. MOD
| | - SPAN. BMP
| ' - TOOLS
| | - BMPVIEW. EXE
| | - CLK.COM
| | - FDISK. EXE
| | - TDISKSZE. EXE
| | - TOSCHK. EXE
| | - TSHOW. EXE
| | - VOLCHECK. EXE
| | - gdisk.exe
| ' - trecover.exe
| - SPAN. BMP
' - Setenv.bat

4 directories, 27 files

Hello

I m very surprised of your suggestion.
To my knowledge the recovery procedure doesn't start automatically.
You must choose between 2 modes, the standard mode and expert mode, until the procedure will begin.
It is very amazing that it is not possible to choose it between these modes.

But you can order a new partner of Toshiba Recovery CD.
Perhaps only your CD is damaged.

In any case, I don't think you will be able to restore your 20 GB on the HARD disk. My view, to start the process of full recovery to reinstall the Windows operating system

Good luck

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