Rescue & Recovery - Multiple Partitions

Greetings,
I have my T61P setup to dual boot Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 and Gentoo Linux.  Grub is my boot loader.  I restored using Rescue & Recovery 4.1.  The Windows partition looks fine, but the other partitions were wiped clean and setup as FAT16 file systems.  Natually I was a bit upset about losing my working Linux system.
Is there any way to prevent this from happening again?
Thanks very much,
Scott

hello scott welcome to the forums!
if you want to restore your pc using R&R i guess it may be impossible for you to use all the paritions without wiping them clean..you cannot install a dual boot system(usually) if you re-format it again..its fine if you are using vista you can resize and install linux but the better option for you is to use acronis true image utility it should work great on all your partitions(all of them will be imaged) 
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