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OK here are those pics
Issue is solved,
What threw me is Intel vs thinking Linux
Although a benefit of choosing 'none' means you can not accidently write, and it shows you what is there

other situation favoring recovery of partition was nothing else had happened to them after they were deleted.
Win ...

pleased to say testdisk did the job right. I booted a linux mint liveusb and all the files were there and usable.
Not that I found anything worth keeping. Everything there I already have somewhere else.
But, yes, it is a great program, thanks very much.

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Ok, here it is.
I am making a rufus mint bootable usb to look at xfs drives today

Fri Mar 8 16:00:35 2024
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.2, Data Recovery Utility, February ...

The grub bootloader on this disk has not worked for couple years, so those linux xfs partitions were abandoned by me.
I figure I can boot up a live cd of ubuntu or Mint and look at what is there

Also don't know how to post pictures directly here yet.

OK. I got it working.
You have to choose a disk type first, so after I selected intel style, i was able to write the XFS partitions out on the disk.
It looks very much as it did, except it extended the last xfs partition to the end of the disk. used to be windows recovery partition there.
When I ...

These are deleted linux XFS partitions I deleted in windows 11 using it's built in partition manager.
I again started fresh with testdisk, and analyze, and the only option that makes sense is to select none as there is no detection of partition type at the beginning of the process for XFS
as it is ...

link to pics of what I see
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ivVDZtpQUrQUmBG68

I suppose I set to XFS5 and linuxswap2 as that is what is shown, but then it says

Write isn't available because the partition table type "None" has been selected.

But I hit 'T' and told it the types
What am I doing wrong ...