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 25G
1.1K    blkdev.list
 13K    clonezilla-img
   4    disk
9.5K    Info-dmi.txt
 19K    Info-lshw.txt
2.5K    Info-lspci.txt
 169    Info-packages.txt
  80    Info-saved-by-cmd.txt
  30    parts
 26M    sda1.vfat-ptcl-img.gz.aa
303M    sda2.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa
 92M    sda3.dd-img.aa
2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa
2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ab
2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ac
2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ad
2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ae
2.0G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.af
1.7G    sda4.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ag
1.3M    sda5.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa
2.0G    sda6.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa
2.0G    sda6.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ab
2.0G    sda6.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ac
2.0G    sda6.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ad
2.0G    sda6.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ae
1.2G    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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Mads Skjern

Posted 2014-10-29T15:25:22.133

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Clonezilla has the capability to restore the partition table, but the image has to contain it, which your image does not. You will have to create the partitions manually since your image doesn't have the information. – Ramhound – 2014-10-29T15:42:55.183

Are you sure? The image folder does contain the following human readable files: sda-gpt.sgdisk, sda-pt.parted, sda-pt.parted.compact and sda-pt.sf, which all describe the partition table. – Mads Skjern – 2014-10-29T15:51:21.707

How would it have looked if the image did have that information? – Mads Skjern – 2014-10-29T16:03:56.453

I have ran into the same trouble. After RTFM -j2 suggests me that the partition table and all hidden sectors were saved into the image. I can even read all that info manually. Still, restoredisk does not restore the GPT partition table used by my Win8.1 installation. – wigy – 2015-05-16T19:32:35.207

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

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