Cannot run Disk Manager in Full System Restore

Hi,
I'm trying to do a full client restore of Windows 8.1 with my Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials (all Windows Updates installed on server), but on the screen where I select source and destination volume, and I click on "Run Disk Manager", I get
error "Cannot load Microsoft Management Console". Same error occurs whether I start the Full System Restore via network over Client Restore Service, or via USB stick.
I can think of a workaround to this, but I've used this earlier in previous Essentials/WHS versions and it has worked flawlessly, so I'm wondering if this is some regression in 2012 R2?
UPDATE: For anyone wondering, the workaround for this was to boot with normal Windows ISO, go to Advanced settings -> Command prompt, and set up the volume using
diskpart tool. Then going back to Full System Restore, and you can just select the correctly initialized target volume.
Any comments?

Hi,
Few days ago system got in a weird state and had to do a full restore. Enabled network boot from BIOS, connected to Windows Server, chose disks (only restore BIG_SSD, i.e., C:) just normally without need to go to Disk Manager, as backup matched current drive.
Perhaps the original issue was due to boot partition being on the secondary drive for some reason (drive D:), but I'm not sure if it was indeed the case.
I have seen it before as well, that restores in Essentials don't work properly if you've chosen only to backup drive C:, but for some reason drive D: is the booting disk (although Windows is on C:). Why has it ended up like that, I don't know, but nowadays
I always install Windows with just one hard drive connected especially if I want to get reliable backups to Essentials.
Thank you everyone for feedback, will mark it as solved, although we perhaps got more questions than answers :)

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