Terrible bug with Rescue & Recovery 4.5

Hello all,
Just a notice to all users, I had a terrible bug with Lenovo Rescue & Recovery. Everything went well, until the restore: I have one SSD for system and one micro sata for data. The system drive had two partitions (created by Lenovo at the origin, a system (C) partition and a Lenovo recovery partition). When I tried to restore a previous version of the system drive that I backuped with Lenovo R&R, it restored the system on C: and restored the recovery partition... on D:, erasing all my data! In addition, the MBR was missing on the system. And cherry on the cake, I could not use the backup a second time when I tried, because R&R did not find the backup again.
I was particularly disappointed because as the backup went so smoothly, I did not do a data backup before restore, my previous backup being three days old, so I lost three days of work.
I had previous bad experience with Windows backup & restore, windows software could not find the restore, but at least it did not erase data.
Thierry

I agree with the TERRIBLE bug comment.
It amounts to:
(1) restore Q partition
(2) C drive.
I will repeat my other posts. I ordered pc, with 320 GB and 160 Gb Hdd.  From factory, C went to 320MB.  Factory install goes to 1st HDD it finds, in my case 320 GB.
So you have discovered a new, how does it work?
1 HDD (c), 1 sata (for data).  It used factory recovery items, and waxed the sata( and made it bootable). Then got smarter, and restored C to HDD, unbootable.
Did someone not test this? Dont expect a new version of RNR. not supported on win 8. Acronis, $$ well spent. 
Dumb.
Next time, unplug the loved sata before a FULL HDD restore. (not a c drive restore). Sad.   unplug loved! 
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Did not find backup 2nd time around. Discussed in other posts from myself.  What is your windows platform RNR backup location set to?  If local, change it to USB or where ever you think they are at.

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