Restore Failure from Source Img of the Same Physical Drive to Destination Root Drive Partition

[Anonymous]

So again, I have a dual boot, Ubuntu 22.04.5 and Kali Linux 2024.4 in the same physical drive each with its own root partitions and ESP boot partitions.

I backed up both root partitions and its respective ESPs to another storage (extended) partition on the same physical drive in a live Rescuezilla USB. Each of the root and ESP backups are stored inside another folder respectively; a total of 4 individual imgs in 2 separate folders.

My understanding that it is possible to restore individual partitions (either roots or ESPs). So when I try to restore only the Kali root partition, there was an error message "Destination device cannot be the same as the source image device". I've checked if the Kali destination root partition was mounted in Gpart and it was not.

The error message resulted when the backup root img was selected from the storage (extended) partition on the same physically drive to be restore onto the root drive. There were no options to select the destination to restore to the root partition even when the "Show hidden devices (for advanced users)" was ticked.

Somehow, Rescuezilla sees this as a Disk-Level instead of a Partition-Level restore. Do you why this is and is there a work around?