Comment 18 for bug 586175

I run into the same problem, but the workaround regarding editing the number of heads in the ntfs partition boot sector did it for me. Little Howto:

Asume: A raw complete harddisc image within a bootable NTFS partition with XP or 2k3 on it

Incident: when using these image with kvm based qemu, the system wan't boot anymore

solution:

1) set up the whole discimage as a loop device
- losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/my/diskimage.raw

2) let kpartx create drive mappings for all partitions within the loop device
- kpartx -a /dev/loop0

3) you need to know on which partition your NTFS partition resides
- fdisk -l /dev/loop0

4) use the right partition mapping with hex-edit (eg. partition 1)
- hexedit /dev/mapper/loop0p1

5) look on hex position 0x1a, for the count of heads NTFS asumes
- in hexedit type enter and then 1A

6) change the value to 0xFF
- in hexedit type FF

7) save and exit hexedit
- press Ctrl+X to end

8) remove the partition mappings
- kpartx -d /dev/loop0

9) remove loop device
- losetup -d /dev/loop0

Hope that helps

Cheers Andreas