Used HP Recovery Manager.

used HP Recovery Manager to back up all my data files before a full System Recovery and now I can't restore the backed up files.

Please provide more info about the issue. Do you get any error, does the back up stall or any other issue?
Meanwhile refer:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03430118
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