Having tried this bare metal restore, I thought I would add some comments for others that might be looking for this information to help them out.
First, the step-by-step, with images, more detailed walkthru of a bare metal/restore environment restore I was looking for can be found here:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH53848
Although it is really for a "restore anywhere" restore, it's detailed explanations of the restore wizard options are way better than the manual. Just be sure to use only the appropriate sesctions and I did not and would not use the utilities unless you know what you are doing. No need with a new drive.
However, one more caveat that was not pointed out. The boot disk environment does not recognize 3TB external drives! Actually thought using a plain external drive would be easier than trying to get networking to work to my NAS, but after the 3TB was not seen by SSR, I then re-imaged to a network share and the SSR boot environment was able to map the drive and use it. Are there plans to add this capability?
What SSR did during my first restore is more appropriately a separate post which I will make shortly. (It did not correctly resize the drive). I do not want to mix threads and subjects.
However my second restore, without choosing "resize restored drive" did work and I used windows to expand it so all appears well.
Took 3 times as long as it should have but it worked. Hopefully a chkdsk finds everything okay tonight.
BJB