Windows 10 Pro restored onto mismatched gpt and mbr partition

I am a Linux guy for years. My wife, on the other hand, is a Windows person. Two months ago her W10PRO seemed sluggish. In the end her ssd (480Gb) was questionable. So I did a Clonezilla backup image. Found a small ssd (160Gb) I had and replaced her questionable ssd and she was good for now. Bought new 500Gb ssd. Now is the time to backup the 160Gb with Clonezilla. Clonezilla reports clonezilla-fails-at-cloning-with-mismatched-gpt-and-mbr-partition. So, trying to find an answer to my problem during the last few days I have discovered the following:

root@faxxx7:~# gdisk -l /dev/sdb

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.6Partition table scan:  MBR: MBR only  BSD: not present  APM: not present  GPT: presentFound valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use? 1 - MBR 2 - GPT 3 - Create blank GPTYour answer: 2Using GPT and creating fresh protective MBR.Disk /dev/sdb: 312581808 sectors, 149.0 GiBModel: INTEL SSDSA2M160Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytesDisk identifier (GUID): D42DAA42-3055-4D6E-830E-878B22D48A0FPartition table holds up to 128 entriesMain partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 312581774Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundariesTotal free space is 312581741 sectors (149.0 GiB)

Then this:

root@faxxx7:~# parted -l

Model: ATA INTEL SSDSA2M160 (scsi)Disk /dev/sdb: 160GBSector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B*Partition Table: msdos*Disk Flags: Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags 1      1049kB  53.5MB  52.4MB  primary  ntfs         boot 2      53.5MB  159GB   159GB   primary  ntfs 3      159GB   160GB   547MB   primary  ntfs         msftres

So, I now know that the original W10 build (on the 480Gb) was on GPT.

The 160Gb ssd was on MBR.

You can see that when I ran 'gdisk -l' Then 'gdisk' stated "Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use?" I shutdown and restarted however gdisk continues to report and ask the same question. I froze when it came time to try deleting the MBR info. Afraid that I was making a mistake and was about to loose the needed data.

The danger of data loose makes me very cautious.

This is not an experiment. I am in need of a experienced answer with some detail?

How do I correct this issue and still keep my data?