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External hard drive partition restored but won't mount

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I have a Seagate 2TB external hard drive and accidentally deleted the NTFS partition. I immediately realized what I had done and restored the partition, however I can't mount the partition (in terminal or Nautilus) yet it shows up in Disk Manager and as an entry if use sudo parted -l.

Disk Manager:

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sudo parted -l output:

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Mount via terminal output:

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Drive is now shown as MBR(msdos). Was it gpt like your internal drive? And you should not make new partition unless you have exactly same start & end sectors. NTFS is very particular about any change and has to have chkdsk from Windows after resize. But new partition, if not exactly overlayed, probably will not work. Better to use testdisk or Windows repair tools to recover missing partition, then it is restored as it was.
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