parkher
For starters you could provide script.log of your last attempt - quite possibly this would be enough... And I do not think this is related to EU model at all - I had similar problem with my US device.
It is quite hard for me to do anything reliable if you cannot rely on your own computer to be stable for 10 minutes, sorry. I do not even want to try
Partial restore exists for a very long time in a form of porkupan's restore sets. If you did not do re-partition they work wonderfully.