I continue to have the very same failure, "Sticking during Restore" while attempting various unsuccessful techniques.

Since InstantCake states: "Do not interrupt this process, it may take awhile. . ."
- the first time I let it run all-night (with my monitor turned off, of course) and it was still 'running' the next morning, stuck at "1337."

I've tried Series1 InstantCake on two different hard disks, first as two drives, Master/Slave and later separately as individual Masters.

Update Note: I forgot to mention I finally realized that my two drives in a Master/Slave configuration were larger than recommended by PTRupgrade.
I continued all my following tests using only a single drive. Question: Could that original two-drive setup somehow have corrupted my drives?

The drives used were both Western Digital, a 250 Gb and a 300 Gb.

I've tried it on two different PC's AND I've also tried the instructions found at: "Series1 InstantCake, stuck at "Welcome, Powering up. . ."

No matter which attempt, each time it gets to "Starting Restore" it reports: "Uncompressed backup size: 1365 megabytes"
(No matter which drive(s) are connected! - Now, that seems strange???)

Each time Restore reaches the following completion point, it gets stuck:
"Restoring 1337 of 1365 megabytes (97.95%)" - meanwhile the "(compressions)" indicator is then an unreadable blur as though it is really flying by.

I should point out that I initially tried the Universal Boot CD version 11 on only the 300 Gb drive, if that makes any difference. Could my problems stem from that?
Even though I used Hinsdale three years ago to successfully upgrade to two drives on my Philips DSR6000, I couldn't figure out how to continue with that CD, so I downloaded InstantCake. Now, with this not working either, I'm feeling particularly stupid!