I have been trying to restore from a USB drive to a new internal hard drive. If I use the defaults, it goes through all the processes of recoverying the hard drive, reboots and does nothing but stay on a black screen after post.
During the initial recovery to a new HDD, I cannot choose the restore MBR using the "Change" option because it gives me the EC950015 error message of not being able to restore from the same drive the image is on. Basically why this happens is because the SRD Windows places the external USB drive as the C: drive, the CD Drive and the D: drive and the unallocated (new C: drive) is just known as Disk 1. So hitting the "Change" button, the software forgets to take into account that the unallocated drive is the target drive and the USB drive is where the data is.
Basically once you choose the "Change" button to edit options, you will not be able to use the USB drive to restore a new HDD.
The only way I have found around this is to use the default restore to make the initial restoration, boot back into SRD, restore the drive again and use the "Change" button to include "Restore the MBR" and run the restoration again.
I truly hope this is fixed so using external USB drives to restore new HDD's is not so complicated.