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Let me put a happy ending bow on this thread.
I used Testdisk to write the MBR partition table type to the disk for the partitions discovered using the Intel type search, then used Windows repair tools and used some bootrec commands to make the disk bootable into Windows.
Cloezilla still complained ...

The command "sgdisk -z /dev/sda" lets me smell a rat. Are you using a dual boot installation?

Using sgdisk from command prompt in Clonezilla Live CD, not a dual boot. That was a recommendation I read on a couple of sites to remove
GPT entries from boot sector. I believe the original partition ...

One more screen cap and log file to this point.

OK, attached first 3 screen shots of using the EFI GPT partition table type selection.

TLDR: guy who know a little about computers screws up disk, begs kindly advice from fellow humans.

One morning my Windows 10 main system drive would not boot. I managed to use Testdisk
to make a copy of my files, so I do have a backup.
Then I was able to actually restore the system so that I could ...