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PC partitions can be set up in 2 different ways.
1) As a primary partition, or a "Real" partition. You can only have 4 primary partitions on a hard drive
2) As an "extended" or "logical" partition. This is basically a partition inside a "Real" partition. You can have MANY logical partitions.. more than a dozen. But all of these extended partitions are stored inside a "Real" partition.
In Linux, primary partitions are identified by /dev/devicenameX , where X = 1 through 4
The extended partition names begin at X = 5
So my guess is that your Disk director created partition table looks like this:
sda1 (Primary, FAT/FAT32)
sda2 (Primary, NTFS most likely your "C:" drive)
sda3 (placeholder for extended partition, not a "Real" partition)
and inside sda3:
sda5 (Extended, NTFS, most likely your "E:" drive)
I would not trust the gpart generated information because it looks incorrect. For some reason it saw your "E:" drive as a primary partition and not an extended one. This explains the gap in the last sector of partition #2 and the first sector of partition #3
Chances are that your "Disk Director" has already fixed your partition table correctly, but if you wish to use a different program to try and recover your partition table, I would try "TESTDISK" and not gpart.
Ironically, you can get a version of TESTDISK from the bootable "Gparted" livecd. Just Right-Click on an empty part of the desktop and then choose TESTDISK from the menu. Another option is to burn a copy of the ULTIMATE BOOT CD. I am pretty sure that it contains TESTDISK.
But I would not use gpart to WRITE out a new partition table because the information looks inconsistent to me.
Good Luck.
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