Al-from your msg I can ascertain a few things.
1-When you partition a hard all data gets deleted.This is widely known and well documented!
2-Also for your "remote drive"...I take it you mean an external usb drive..how that got deleted amazes me,unless you chose to partition that too.
3-As for your DVD's,they should also be tested after burning.
4-In future use flash devices,such as usb keys or SD cards(a little more expensive,but not as prone to corruption as optical discs.)
footnote-you did use the official beta download from Microsoft,didn't you?
conclusion-let's get the hackers in on this one or you may have to pay a data recovery service to get the data back...
hmm..I can hear the hackers putting down their copies of Victor now and rising to the challenge...
