Rescueing Microsoft reserved partition

A few year ago I built myself a NAS. It has a 320GB HDD for ubuntu OS and a 2TB HDD for files. I mounted de 2TB disk and shared it with samba over my network. Now I have build a HTPC like system and want to put the 2TB disk in that system. This system runs windows 10. I doubted if I could simply connect it to my new system but tried just to see if it would work. It shows as unallocated space in the Windows disk manager so I figured I should just copy all the files to another disk, then format the 2TB disk in windows and copy all the files back. Unfortunately I can't mount my 2TB disk anymore on my NAS. When I do fdisk -l is shows as a Microsoft Reserved Partition: Disk /dev/sda: 1.8Tib, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: F7CB1168-49F7-4885-BFE2-EF9905099A86 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 34 32767 32734 16M Microsoft reserved Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. EDIT 1: I opened the disk in gparted. According to gparted it has 16Mb partition with the next warning: Unable to detect file system! Possible reasons are: - The file system is dammaged - The file system is unknown to GParted - There is no file system available (unformatted) - The device entry /dev/sda1 is missing The other 1.82Tb shows as unallocated EDIT2: my fstab shows: # data disk UUID=cfcf09cb-55-fc-40a7-b0b3-afd4d809bb09 /media/emiel/data ext4 auto,user,rw 0 0 I am trying to mount the disk from the terminal for now. EDIT 3: As per @Rusi's suggestion I tried parted rescue with no results: emiel@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda print Model: ATA WDC WD20EZRZ-00Z (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 16.8MB 16.8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres emiel@ubuntu:~$ sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda label: gpt label-id: F7CB1168-49F7-4885-BFE2-EF9905099A86 device: /dev/sda unit: sectors first-lba: 34 last-lba: 3907029134 /dev/sda1 : start= 34, size= 32734, type=E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE, uuid=58F98377-19F8-46D0-AF53-490D2987D76D, name="Microsoft reserved partition" emiel@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda rescue Start? 34 End? 3907029134 searching for file systems... 100% (time left 00:00)Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab. EDIT 4: I tried gdisk as per @Rusi's suggestion with the next result: emiel@ubuntu:~$ sudo gdisk /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.3 The protective MBR's 0xEE partition is oversized! Auto-repairing. Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. EDIT 5: After the above I tried TestDisk to scan my drive. It is still scanning but it outputs a lot of the same thing. Can someone explain to me what this means? Linux 0 0 1 243201 80 63 3907029168 [data] Linux 0 0 1 243201 80 63 3907029168 [data] Linux 0 0 1 243201 80 63 3907029168 [data] Linux 0 0 1 243201 80 63 3907029168 [data] Linux 0 0 1 243201 80 63 3907029168 [data] Linux 0 0 1 243201 80 63 3907029168 [data] Linux 0 0 1 243201 80 63 3907029168 [data] Linux 0 0 1 243201 80 63 3907029168 [data] Linux 0 0 1 243201 80 63 3907029168 [data] Linux 0 0 1 243201 80 63 3907029168 [data] EDIT 6: Overnight the above (MBR) scan completed with the following result: TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015 Christophe GRENIER http://www.cgsecurity.org Disk /dev/sda - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63 The harddisk (2000 GB / 1863 GiB) seems too small! ( Linux 121428 157 10 364629 238 9 3907029168 [data] [ Continue ] ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Recover, 2000 GB / 1863 GiB After I hit continue I wasn't able to browse files or do anything at all listed on the walkthrough. I could only 'quit'. EDIT 7: But then I thought, maybe I should scan as "None" partition table, as suggested when I start testdisk, so I did: Disk /dev/sdc - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63 Current partition structure: Partition Start End Size in sectors P ext4 0 0 1 243201 80 63 3907029168 [data] This is exactly what is on my disk, an ext4 partition covering the whole disk named "data". My conclusion: When I formated the disk 2+ year ago I did it wrong but did not notice, which resulted in a disk without a partition table. When I connected it to my Windows machine it found no partition table and created a wrong one. So I think I need to delete the partition table. I did search online but there is no information mentioning ONLY removing the partition table, not the existing partitions. Another option would maybe be to create a correct partition table myself to point at the existing ext4 partition. My question: Is my conclusion right? And can you advise me on how to accomplish above tasks?