GPTsync mismatch problem

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Published on 2012-08-31T17:13:01Z Indexed on 2012/09/04 9:49 UTC
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I have a hybrid disk. After trying to copy some files from another disk to this one, I lost my OSX and Ubuntu boot capability. Ran gptsync and got:

Current GPT partition table:
 #      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1             34         1987  BIOS Boot Partition
 2           1988   1029662719  Basic Data
 3     1029662720   2108995583  Basic Data
 4     2108995584   2109405183  EFI System (FAT)
 5     2109405184   2517004287  Mac OS X HFS+
 6     2517266432   2667417599  Mac OS X HFS+
 7     2667417600   3900229631  Basic Data
 8     3900230504   3907029118  Linux Swap

Current MBR partition table:
 # A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1              1   3907029167  ee  EFI Protective

Status: MBR table must be updated.

Proposed new MBR partition table:
 # A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1              1           33  ee  EFI Protective
 2             34         1987  da  Non-FS data
 3           1988   1029662719  83  Linux
 4 *   1029662720   2108995583  07  NTFS/HPFS

May I update the MBR as printed above? [y/N] 

Clearly the MBR table is damaged or mismatched. But it does not reflect the correct GPT table partitions at all. How do I get the MBR repaired to match the GPT table (up to the 4 part limit of course)?

The question is simply - Do I blindly say Yes to gptsync's suggestion? It looks sort of ok but not exactly so...Advice please on interpreting the above output to get my disk usable would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You!

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