Fixing damaged partition table

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Published on 2012-11-09T21:22:08Z Indexed on 2014/06/11 21:28 UTC
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This is continuation of Recover Extended Partition , but this time I have different problem related partition table it self.

I managed to restore partition that I needed and backed up files that were crucial to me (at least those that I had space to store somewhere)

OK now get to the problem. My partition table is corrupted, booting RIP Linux I can mount it in truecrypt (and other ones that recovered), but that's basically it. When I launch GParted I have unallocated drive.

GParted Dev info:

Device Information

Model: ATA ST2000DL003-9VT1
Size: 1.82TiB
Path: /dev/sda

Partition table: unrecognized
Heads: 255
Sectors/track: 63
Cylinders: 243201
Total Sectors: 3907029168
Sector size: 512

When I check information on unallocated space I get:

File system: unallocated
Size: 1.82TiB
First sector: 0
Last sector: 3907029167
Total sectors: 3907029168

Warning: Can't have a partition outside the disk!

Now the output of testdisc (Analyze):

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sda - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63
Current partition structure:
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors

> 1 P Linux                13132 242 39 16353 233  8   51744768                                        
  2 E extended LBA         16807 223  1 243201 254 63 3637021626
 No partition is bootable
  5 L Linux                16807 223 57 20430  39 25   58191872
    X extended             20430  70  1 243201  78 13 3578816632
 Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot
  6 L HPFS - NTFS          20430  71 58 243201  78 13 3578816512
 6 LNext

Now fdisk:

# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00039cd0

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1       210980864   262725631    25872384   83  Linux
/dev/sda2       270018504  3907040129  1818510813    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5       270018560   328210431    29095936   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       328212480  3907028991  1789408256    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Now I would like to fix that to arrange partitions correctly, but I have no idea which tool is capable of fixing that (tried, a few, some of them offered fixing, but it was to risky at the moment - still backing up data).

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