Here are my partitions after I deleted the windows partitions but before I tried to recover them in test disk, back in January:
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Current partition structure:
1 P Linux 0 32 33 10917 14 41 175380480 [Movies and Shows]
3 E extended 10917 47 9 60801 80 15 801388546
No partition is bootable
5 L Linux 30816 96 1 33941 153 3 50206719
X extended 60278 97 44 60801 80 15 8400896
6 L Linux Swap 60278 130 13 60801 80 15 8398848
X extended 42390 154 5 60278 97 43 287367168
7 L Linux 42390 186 37 60278 97 43 287365120 [MultimediaII]
X extended 14375 0 1 22941 43 14 137615513
8 L Linux 14375 2 28 22941 43 14 137615360 [KxStudio_Home]
X extended 10917 47 10 14374 239 38 55548830
9 L Linux 10917 47 11 14374 239 38 55548829 [KxStudio_14]
X extended 33941 153 4 42390 154 4 135733249
10 L Linux 33941 153 5 42390 154 4 135733248
X extended 22941 43 15 30816 63 31 126513152
11 L Linux 22941 75 47 30816 63 31 126511104 [Multimedia]
and
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Results
HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 191 89 26 3072000
NTFS found using backup sector, blocksize=4096, 1572 MB / 1500 MiB
Linux 0 32 33 10917 14 41 175380480 [Movies and Shows]
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB, 89 GB / 83 GiB
HPFS - NTFS 191 89 27 10916 237 9 172306432
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 88 GB / 82 GiB
Linux 10917 47 11 14375 2 27 55549952 [KxStudio_14]
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB, 28 GB / 26 GiB
Linux 14375 2 28 22941 43 14 137615360 [KxStudio_Home]
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB, 70 GB / 65 GiB
Linux 22941 75 47 30816 63 31 126511104 [Multimedia]
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB, 64 GB / 60 GiB
Linux 30816 96 1 33941 153 4 50206720
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Recover, 25 GB / 23 GiB
Linux 33941 153 5 42390 154 4 135733248
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Recover, 69 GB / 64 GiB
Linux 42390 186 37 60278 97 43 287365120 [MultimediaII]
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB, 147 GB / 137 GiB
Linux Swap 60278 130 13 60801 80 15 8398848
SWAP2 version 1, pagesize=4096, 4300 MB / 4101 MiB
and what I did in testdisk:
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interface_write()
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 191 89 26 3072000
2 P HPFS - NTFS 191 89 27 10916 237 9 172306432
write!
write_mbr_i386: starting...
write_all_log_i386: starting...
No extended partition
ntfs_boot_sector
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 191 89 26 3072000
NTFS found using backup sector, blocksize=4096, 1572 MB / 1500 MiB
NTFS at 0/32/33
filesystem size 1 3072000
sectors_per_cluster 0 8
mft_lcn 0 128000
mftmirr_lcn 0 2
clusters_per_mft_record 0 -10
clusters_per_index_record 0 1
Boot sector
Status: Bad
Backup boot sector
Status: OK
Sectors are not identical.
A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.
copy backup boot sector over boot sector
ntfs_boot_sector
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 191 89 26 3072000
NTFS found using backup sector, blocksize=4096, 1572 MB / 1500 MiB
NTFS at 0/32/33
NTFS at 0/32/33
filesystem size 3072000
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 128000
mftmirr_lcn 2
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
Boot sector
Status: OK
Backup boot sector
Status: OK
Sectors are identical.
A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.
You will have to reboot for the change to take effect.
TestDisk exited normally.
Finally what I recuperated recently:
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Current partition structure:
1 P HPFS - NTFS 191 89 27 10916 237 9 172306432
2 E extended LBA 14374 224 59 60278 97 43 737439744
3 * Linux Swap 60278 130 13 60801 80 15 8398848
5 L Linux 14375 2 28 22941 43 14 137615360 [KxStudio_Home]
X extended 22941 74 1 30816 63 31 126511213
6 L Linux 22941 75 47 30816 63 31 126511104 [Multimedia]
X extended 33941 152 1 42390 154 4 135733315
7 L Linux 33941 153 5 42390 154 4 135733248
X extended 42390 185 1 60278 97 43 287365219
8 L Linux 42390 186 37 60278 97 43 287365120 [MultimediaII]
Results
Linux 0 32 33 10917 14 41 175380480 [Movies and Shows]
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB, 89 GB / 83 GiB
Linux 10917 47 11 14375 2 27 55549952 [KxStudio_14]
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB, 28 GB / 26 GiB
Linux 14375 2 28 22941 43 14 137615360 [KxStudio_Home]
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Recover, 70 GB / 65 GiB
Linux 22941 75 47 30816 63 31 126511104 [Multimedia]
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB, 64 GB / 60 GiB
Linux 30816 96 1 33941 153 4 50206720
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB, 25 GB / 23 GiB
Linux 33941 153 5 42390 154 4 135733248
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Recover, 69 GB / 64 GiB
Linux 42390 186 37 60278 97 43 287365120 [MultimediaII]
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Recover, 147 GB / 137 GiB
Linux Swap 60278 130 13 60801 80 15 8398848
SWAP2 version 1, pagesize=4096, 4300 MB / 4101 MiB
Note: using deeper search with GPT partition table resulted in hundreds and hundreds of entries and I gave up sifting to see what files were in each partition including:
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dir_partition inode=0
MS Data 524935747 524938626 2880 [NO NAME]
FAT12, blocksize=512, 1474 KB / 1440 KiB
I noted that GPT partitionning allowed only Primary or deleted as options for recovery.