Restore Error Could not find disk uuid and partition uuid

I have an iMac running High Sierra with an internal SSD that I installed Windows 10 on. The Mac OS is booted from an SSD in a USB3 cradle.

I have been creating clones using WinClone 7 to a HD inserted in the USB3 cradle. Today I tried booting into Windows and got a blue screen after a few minutes with a KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE error.

I tried to restore my clone from 9/28/19 to the iMac SSD and I get this error:

Restore Error
Could not find disk uuid and partition uuid

Here is disk information from the iMac:
steve at iMac in ~
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data 999.9 GB disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk1
1: Windows_NTFS Windows 120.5 GB disk1s1
2: 0x27 865.1 MB disk1s2

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *8.0 TB disk2
1: Apple_HFS Time Machine 2.0 TB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Mac Data 3.0 TB disk2s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data Win Data 3.0 TB disk2s3

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *512.1 GB disk3
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 511.3 GB disk3s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk3s3

/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *320.1 GB disk4
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk4s1
2: Apple_HFS WinClone 319.1 GB disk4s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk4s3

How can I resolve this issue?

Thanks,
Steve

The Windows partition needs to be on a GPT / GUID partition table. Looks like yours is FDISK:

Try partitioning as GPT:

That did the trick! Thank you very much!

Steve

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