Nasty problem when moving bad to zorin 17.3

Installing Zorin OS
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Today i thought of installing kubuntu and after installing it i found out that I didn't like it so i booted from zorin Live USB and installed zorin... After that I opened timeshift and I did a system restore... The problem was that I was at mid run locked out to zorin lockscreen and I was unable to unlock. Thats when my pc froze. I forced a reboot and I was brought to grub minimal shell... So I tried re installing zorin, doing restore again but this time it rebooted itself before finishing... At that moment I got same grub shell... Then after re gointto zorin live usb I formatted my ssd so to clean all of that mess and this is my partition table

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But when I proceed to the install I got
The attempt to mount a file system with type vfat at /boot/efi failed

So I was basically left with not knowing what to do... Secure boot was always enabled even before the os change...
Luckily I took a backup of my home dir and a timeshift snapshot before that... But I want to return back and don't know how without risking my data
I also have an older laptop that has my system from 2 months ago and im thinking of doing a disk image backup and putting it on my new laptop... This worked well back then when ai migrated to my new laptop.... What do you think I should do😭
@Aravisian

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I would do a clean install, without restoring TimeShift.
Then, move over the backup files from the Home Directory that you saved, Except For The ~/.config and /.local folders.

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@Aravisian
Ok I did a clean install and everything now works... I will most likely copy the home directory from timeshift to mine, this is where my wine, everything lives

Im sad that I brought my os to an unrecoverable state, I should have taken a restore disk img from disks and though of that before hand... Anyways lesson learned... Again thank you

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A fresh and clean install can do a lot of good, too.
It reduces clutter and orphaned files.