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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. ...
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Clonezilla: "mismatched GPT and MBR partition". GPT deletion made the system unbootable

Using Clonezilla on a thumb drive to create a system image, in order to clone disks from it; Clonezilla threw an error: "mismatched GPT and MBR partition" and refused to proceed; Searched ...
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Cloned GPT drive with Clonezilla to larger drive and can't increase partition size

Cloned GPT drive with Clonezilla to larger drive and can't increase partition size. Before this, I tried to use AOMEI Backupper Standard and experienced the same issue. Tried EaseUS Partition ...
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gparted persistently claims that GPT table is corrupt

Question: gparted keeps claiming "The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.". It persists even when I wipe the GPT table using gdisk, try to create new gpt ...
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How do I clone a larger disk to a smaller disk using clonezilla?

I have a larger disk Disk A and a smaller disk Disk B. Disk A contains a few partitions but the total size of all the partitions is smaller than the capacity of Disk B. Disk A is a GPT formatted ...
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How do I deploy Windows 7 to UEFI or really boot in legacy mode?

I used to deploy a windows 7 image to computers using clonezilla, after creating two partitions and setting the bootable flag on the system partition. Now however, I've got some computers with an ...
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Clonezilla stopped. Can "sgdisk -z /dev/sdx" destroy all the data on sda?

I need suggestions. I wanted to backup sda2 on which Win7 is installed. I deleted the Recovery Resion. (Probably Testdisk can restore this partition because I haven't done any manipulation on that ...
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Clonezilla fails at cloning with mismatched GPT and MBR partition

I got this message: This disk contains mismatched GPT and MBR partition: /dev/sda Clonezilla's FAQ says: You might have installed an OS with GPT partition table, and later overwrite the disk ...
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