E145: can't restore after Win 8.1 update

Hi all, updated my E145 to Win 8.1 and installed some programs. Then had to do a restore. So pressed F11 on startup and clicked through the messages. As a target OS only 8.1 was listed?! Choosed it and then the recovery process stops. Systems says: PC can't be restored because there's a partition lacking (sorry for the bad translation, I'm on a German Windows).
So now I'm stuck...
Any help appreciated!

I appairantly have the same problem on Lenovo E545 so I made a topic about it. Now I found this simmilar topic, any help would be welcome for me 2

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