System restore broken right after recovery

I just did a recovery on my X1 laptop. I put the recovery on a USB stick before I did the reinstall. I noticed my system restore was not working. It would say it would work, but no restore points are found.
When I first went to the System Restore properties, there were two C: drives. It was enabled on the one listed as (MISSING), and disabled on the one with the Windows logo. I attempted to enable on the proper drive and got it they way it should be like so:
Now when I try to create a restore point I get this error:
Everything I have found says to do a "Repair" on Windows 7. I can't even do that since all I have is the OEM recovery media. But if I re-image, I will be in the same boat as I am in now. I find system restore to be a huge asset and use it all the time. I am stumped on what I can do to make it work.

For whatever it's worth,  this happens to me everytine I do a restore from an image. All I do is to select the C drive that is missing and and turn off the restore function. Then I select the remaining C drive and enable the restore function and everything is then normal until I do another restore. I don't know  why it does it but I think it's something screwy with Win7 getting confused with drives before the drivers are loaded.

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