Restore Partitioning from Clonezilla Backup

Question

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?)

Edit_02

Just for the sake of it.

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Answer 1

I found [using google] instructions for using sfdisk to write the partition information from my Clonezilla backup. (I have had to use "--force" and so I rebooted, so I do not have the www address in front of me... and I can not seem to remember nor recreate the search I used [and I neglected to write either of those down]. Sorry about that.)

The command I used is as follows. [The instructions had something else instead of "/run/media/liveuser/"; your partitioning software will show the path when you mount a partition.]

sudo sfdisk --force /dev/sda < /run/media/liveuser/ {myPath} / {MyArchive} /sda-pt.sf

I had to use "--force", in spite of closing everything except Firefox. (I was booted from a USB drive.)

Immediately, it seems to have worked; I have not tried anything yet.

The answer to my other question is that it has indeed returned the first partition to being sda1 instead of [the changed version] sda11.

Thanks everyone for your efforts. (I have noted ChanganAuto's advice that I may have to give up and try to get it working on a different drive.)

Edit_01

That's " {MyPath} " and " {MyArchive} "; I added the spaces to make those elements stand out; the path should not have spaces in it (unless there is a space in a user-created name (in which case refer to the relevant manual to see how to represent spaces)). Example as follows.

sudo sfdisk --force /dev/sda < /run/media/liveuser/HDD/Archives/20230613Backup/sda-pt.sf

Note that using "--force" is undesirable, and you should reboot immediately if you do use it.