Hello!
You failed to give some vital information. Is this a bootable drive in a
Power Mac? Which version of Mac OS X are you running? Are the partitions
accessible at all?
Normally the Apple Partition Map (APM) is stored in the first 64 sectors
and if they are not corrupted the partitions should be available from
every OS that can read APM partitions.
TestDisk should be able to find partitions for a APM partitioning
scheme, but I personally never tried it. Someone else didn't either,
https://www.broes.nl/2008/01/restore-an-apple-partition-map/, but has
found an alternative solution to reconstruct the partition table.
You say that all the partitions show up on the desktop? I would
definitely safe all precious files from the disk before I would try to
"fix" the partition table.
Which Power Mac are you using? Because if it is a Mac prior to the
Quicksilver 2002 then it's natural that you don't see partitions behind
the 128 GB barrier, due to LBA with 28 bits versus LBA48 with 48 bits.
See
https://4thcode.blogspot.co.at/2007/12/using-128-gib-or-larger-ata-hard-drives.html
for more on this and why it is possible that you see the partitions on
the desktop after booting...
Good luck!
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