My HDD has been getting progressively worse. Latterly, my sda1 EFI partition got deleted; I have created a new partition in the same place, and it is now sda11 (albeit shown at the beginning).
I wish to restore the partitioning as it was... which I believe I can do with my Clonezilla backup; it has the capability/option of restoring the partitioning from the backup.
[Incidentally, Clonezilla considers itself to be unable to restore one partition, in situ, from a backup from more than one disk (which mine is) -- apparently [to me] for no good reason.]
My question is... can I do that [restore the partitioning] .other than. within an attempt to restore a partition using Clonezilla, please?
Secondarily/in parallel... would that restore the situation that the first partition was sda1, or am I stuck with it now being sda11, please?
Thank you in advance.
Edit_01
In response to ChanganAuto's comment... I had (Linux) Fedora installed, and then it arbitrarily died; I tried to reinstall it, and it did not seem to be aware that there was anything it could fix; I tried to create a new installation of Fedora in the same place, and it refused; I thought to therefore point it at the EFI in sda1, and it took the liberty of obliterating it; I was not able to restore my backup into that partition (that is, it booted but it complained that the partition had unspecified errors); my attempts to repair the damage resulted in the partition being deleted entirely. When I tried to create a new partition in the same physical space, it did... but it numbered it 11, not 1. Does that help?
My question, again, is as follows. Is there anything I can use, other than Clonezilla, to restore the partitioning scheme, from a Clonezilla backup, onto the drive of which it is a backup? (...And if I can and do, will it fix the numbering?)
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Just for the sake of it.
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