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Oooppps ... @Jesse Williams, that is not the original partition structure of a DELL Laptop. It has been modified by your friend and shows 3 Ext partitions. That complicates the whole issue. It could be that those modifications made the laptop unbootable. I also do not see any overlapping partitions.
While you can try to restore the partitions- if possible - there is no guarantee that that laptop will be bootable. So I will only give general instructions how to restore the partitions.
It is upto you to execute or not execute. I take no responsibility.
Screenshot 1 below shows a HDD which has lost all partitions. The disk map below in that window shows the drive as unallocated.
You must select all partitions existing as well as Lost/Deleted that would show your drive as before without any unallocated space as shown in screenshot 2 below.
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After selecting all the partitions, the diskmap below shows the drive as before. There is no unallocated space anywhere.
In a case where a number of partitions shown which you know didn't exist as seen last, you will select only those partitions that when selected show the drive as before. ( Multiple partitions may appear in cases the drive had been formatted repeatedly. In such a case you may see overlapping partitions also)
So the basic fact is, you must know the exact partition structure before you lost those, and choose only those partitions that will show your drive as it existed before you lost those.
( We have had cases showing umpteen partitions. We had to then calculate which of those partitions when totalled shows the correct capacity . So permutations and combinations but in the final result the disk structure in the map should should show exactly what it was before it lost the partitions)
So there you are on your own now.
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