Correct way to restore dbs to new server
I am not sure what your issue is here.


When you restore the database, the data (mdf) and log (ldf) files have be on disk someplace.  The WITH MOVE just tells SQL where to put them.
You can't have a SQL server without databases, every install will have 4 databases out of the box, master, msdb, model &amp; tembdb, they are system databases, and they each have mdf &amp; ldf files someplace, just like the user database you want to restore. 
As  scsimon mentions in a comment, you probably do not want your SQL files on the C drive, best practice explained to me is for to have 4 drives for SQL, 


Data Drive (mdf)
Log file drive (ldf)
Tempdb (mdf &amp; ldf for tempdb)
Backups (bak &amp; trn, which should be copied off at least nightly)