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How to restore partition table, when restoring entire disk using Clonezilla?

I created an image of my entire disk, just after purchasing my laptop, using CloneZilla. The disk image was created with the graphical version of CloneZilla, but in the logfile clonezilla-img, it says that it can be done over with the command:

ocs-sr -q2 -c -j2 -z1p -i 2000 -p true savedisk 2013-11-05-21-img sda

List of files:

total 25G1.1K    blkdev.list 13K    clonezilla-img   4    disk9.5K    Info-dmi.txt 19K    Info-lshw.txt2.5K    Info-lspci.txt 169    Info-packages.txt  80    Info-saved-by-cmd.txt  30    parts 26M    sda1.vfat-ptcl-img.gz.aa303M    sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa 92M    sda3.dd-img.aa2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ab2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ac2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ad2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ae2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.af1.7G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ag1.3M    sda5.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa2.0G    sda6.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa2.0G    sda6.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ab2.0G    sda6.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ac2.0G    sda6.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ad2.0G    sda6.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ae1.2G    sda6.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.af  37    sda-chs.sf 17K    sda-gpt-1st 16K    sda-gpt-2nd 18K    sda-gpt.gdisk 868    sda-gpt.sgdisk 512    sda-mbr 799    sda-pt.parted 710    sda-pt.parted.compact 250    sda-pt.sf

Now I am trying to restore the whole thing, onto the same disk as I cloned from, using CloneZilla Live. I used the beginners mode, and somehow I got it to delete all partitions, but without restoring the partition table from the image. I'm not sure if I made a mistake, or if it really can't handle that and just expect the partitions to be in place.

So now it throws me into command line, asking me to restore the partition table, to prepare for restoring CloneZilla to restore the actual partition content.

No partition is found in this machine. To restore an image of partition, partition(s) must exist on the destination disk. Now enter another shell to allow you to create partition table on the destination disk. You may use fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk or parted to do that. When everything is done, run "exit" to go back to the original program. 

Do I need to do this manually, or can I make one of these partition tools read the desired partition table from the image?


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