How can I repair hard drive partitions?

I have an external hard drive for backups formatted with Windows XP that I use now with my laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium. Recently, my son plugged into his Apple PC and tried to create a partition to back up its files. Apparently this corrupted the table to partition. I can get is all data on the hard drive.

I looked at the drive by using:

1 Windows 7 disk management

2. Acronis Disk Director 11

3. EASEUS Partition Recovery (last version)

4 partition Wizard 5.2

Neither of them could do anything except delete or format partitions.

The partitions on my external hard drive are still there, but Acronis Disk Director shows the following information:

Disc 1 (TPG)

CAPACITY OF FREE SPACE OF THE VOLUME TYPE FILE SYSTEM STATE

EFI 200 MB FAT32 200 MB GPT basic health

Local 232.9 GB GB 226,7 basic GPT volume not supported in health

Unallocated 128 MB

Local volume 232 GB GB 218,6 GPT of base not supported in health

Local 619,9 MB GB 130.1 basic GPT volume not supported in health

Is anyway to repair the partition table and possibly access data?

Thank you!

I can't run Chkdsk because the drive is not visible in Windows or DOS except in disk management and Device Manager.

I decided to give up and just clean the disk and re - format.  Thanks for your efforts to help.

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