Toshiba Recovery-CD deleted all partitions on Satelitte M50-181

Hello,
After i discovered that other images than the OEM-Image of Windows XP don't have driver support for my Satelitte M50-181 Notebook i decided to install the old OEM-Version.
I had also installed an ubuntu linux, grub as bootloader.
After inserting the recovery-cd there was no questioning what i wanted to do. The recovery process started automatically deleting all partitions and creating one big NTFS-Partiotion ITERATING OVER ALL CONNECTED DEVICES (ipod, 500GB backup disk).
WHY THE HELL IS THIS POSSIBLE? WHAT CAN I DO?
Regards,
Cornelius

I did not get any screen showing any options.
After i booted from cd the process started directly. I believe it has something to do with the non standard boot loader... but i don't and don't want to know.
The fact is that i have none of any existing partion i had created before. Not on the internal disk, not on my backup drive.
Even if there had been a screen it is not even nearly explainable why this tool did this without any further confirmation and primarily why it did this iterating over all other devices.
The question is, what i do now, not what it caused.
Cornelius

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