Here is the actual problem:
Once I clicked on the ‘Edit’ option, the display changes to show the new drives partition layout. On close inspection you will see that the ‘System, Reserved’ and the Windows 7 partitions (no Volume Label) physical location on the new drive are out of order (reversed). By this I mean that normally the ‘System, Reserved’ partition must be the first partition on the drive, followed by the Windows 7 partition.
The actual order as displayed was:
1) The Windows 7 partition (No Label, as this is a new drive), 69.1GB
2) The ‘System Reserved’ 100MB partition.
3) 379GB Unallocated.
4) USB drive
There are two repercussions as a result.
a) You can not resize the drive during the recovery process.
b) More importantly due to the out of order location of the System, Reserved partition/volume the computer is rendered non bootable (as detailed below).
Is there a fix for this or do you need to restore the System,Reserved partition first and then restore the Windows partition?