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To salvage your restore point, you can do the following (on any of your PCs)
1. find the image and find the VHD within all the image files. It is usually the last file with the many bytes.
2. Go to Disk Management, click on the 'Action button' (top left) and then on Attach. Navigate to that VHD in the image and attach it. Now you should see a virtual volume in Disk Management and in My Computer. Remember the drive letter And give it a different name that you can recognize.
3. Download and install free Macrium - some other imaging program may also work for the next steps, but I have done it with Macrium and I know that this works.
4. Start Macrium and burn the recovery CD as a first step.
5. Image the attached VHD - should be easy to find by the drive letter or the name you gave it.
6. With the help of the Macrium recovery CD, restore that image to the partition from where the original image (the VHD) came from. If there is a problem with size, you might have to first shrink the VHD volume before you do steo #5. Make sure you mark the partition as 'active' and also restore the MBR.
7. If that partition (the C: partition) was originally active, your system should now boot. If you originally had the 100MB active system partition, Then you have to first fix your bootmgr. Either run startup repair 3 times with your installation/recovery disc, or use one of the tutorials from the tutorial section.