Can't restore backup image
True Image 2013 w/ plus pack on Win7. 1TB SATA data drive died. It has a two partition whole disk backup. When I try to restore this backup image in whole disk mode to a replacement 1TB HD, as soon as it finishes it's initial analysis a pop-up error message of "Operation has failed" appears. No reason why is given. Is there a log where more information can be found?

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I deleted the existing partition and used Acronis to add new disk, which creates a new partition. As it's writing the new partition, a dialog box pops up saying"Disk Adding has Failed. See the log for details."
I found the log. It says the clearing operations completed successfully. Then the error message there is, "Failed to prepare operations. Error code: 8 'Partition is not found'".
The earlier log message associated with the recovery attempt is, "Failed to prepare operations. Error code: 7 'Disk is not found, please check that all the hard disks are attached to your computer.'"
The source and destination drives are fully accessible from Windows. The destination replacement HD, a Samsung, works fine. In Windows I can read and write to it without any problems. It is selectable in Acronis.
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Started over. Ensured there was no partition, restarted Acronis this time, and went through the add new disk process. This time it created a new partition. Went back to the recovery options and it's now writing to the new drive. I don't know why Acronis has to be so difficult to perform the most basic tasks but it seems to be finally working. Hopefully all will come out well. Thanks.
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