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Restore Failed Message, but Restore Seems to have Succeeded

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I backed up a Lenovo R500 Drive successfully. Following the instructions in the manual I restored to a new hard drive.
I restored the two partitions (C drive and recovery partition and not the MBR)
The result was a message saying that the Restore Failed. However, the computer runs normally from the new drive.
I assume that only the recovery partition failed. When I run Acronis on the computer with the new disk in it, only the C drive partition shows. The Lenovo recovery partition is not there.
I can keep the old hard disk for the recovery partition, but it would be nice to get it onto the new drive.
Is there any way I can do this?

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Does the original disk contain any partitions (such as non-lettered partitions) that were not iincluded within the backup? The exstance of non-lettered partitions do not display in the normal Windows Explorer and may require the disk be viewed from inside the Windows Disk management graphical view.

Which version of Windows?

Is either disk a GPT disk?

The only way of adding the partition would be to start again with the restore.

My signature link #3 provides two possibilities which is the #2 and #1 listing. The disk option restore could be a possibility if your backup was all inclusive.

Try doing a restore of just the recovery partition. Since the partition is no longer on the target drive, that space should show up as unallocated space in ATI. Do the restore to there and see if it works.

IF the partition is still there, you can restore to that partition -- it will probably be the only one highlighted when you are given the screen to select a target location. but just be sure you don't pick the "C" partition ;)