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by dmccabe

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I have been working on converting Ghost Images to Powerquest images, so I
dont have to in(de)stall OS. I have a problem now in that on trying to open
an image of win nt, I am getting a 'Invalid system disc' error message and
cant get in to anyOS now.

system:pentium 3 128mb 10gig h/d

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by rachel_s

I am assuming there is nothing wrong with the drive, you can see the partitions from a dos disk running fdisk, and there is not a floppy inserted. :*)

It sounds like the problem is the boot sector was not overwritten for some reason, ie there isno boot information. I've not seen this happen with Ghost, but I'm not familiar with Powerquest.
Either recreate the image, or do a second step - create a recovery disk on the origonal machine. Boot off the NT setup disks - you can remake these if needed - and choose the repair option. Select Inspect Boot Sector.

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