Time machine data recovery from a Raw disk

Hi everyone!
I have been backing up my data on an external HDD with time machine. The HDD is 1TB and I needed some storage space to back up some other files form work, so I created a partition. After creating the partition the HDD became RAW, so I was not able to read files from my MacBook Pro. Between Ubuntu and Mac I have been able to access the information in the HDD but I can't find Pictures and Music which is the only information I need to recover. I need help please, if anyone knows a way to find my pictures, I will really appreciated, those are my live pictures.Thanks.

I forgot to mention that my Pictures were store in iPhoto and my music in iTunes

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