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...I/O errorÿ..Rep 000001B0 6C 61 63 65 20 74 68 65 20 64 69 73 6B 2C 20 61 lace the disk, a 000001C0 6E 64 20 74 68 65 6E 20 70 72 65 73 73 20 61 6E nd then press an 000001D0 79 20 6B 65 79 0D 0A 00 49 4F 20 20 20 20 20 20 y key...IO 000001E0 53 59 53 4D 53 44 4F 53 20 20 20 53 59 53 80 01 SYSMSDOS SYS€. 000001F0 00 57 49 4E 42 4F 4F 54 20 53 59 53 00 00 55 AA .WINBOOT SYS..Uª 00000200 F8 FF FF FF FF FF 04 00 FF FF 06 00 FF FF 08 00 øÿÿÿÿÿ..ÿÿ..ÿÿ.. So if that is where guestfish is looking for the partition table... I searched for other references. Found this one and it agreed with t...

...gt; 000001B0 6C 61 63 65 20 74 68 65 20 64 69 73 6B 2C 20 61 lace the disk, a > 000001C0 6E 64 20 74 68 65 6E 20 70 72 65 73 73 20 61 6E nd then press an > 000001D0 79 20 6B 65 79 0D 0A 00 49 4F 20 20 20 20 20 20 y key...IO > 000001E0 53 59 53 4D 53 44 4F 53 20 20 20 53 59 53 80 01 SYSMSDOS SYS€. > 000001F0 00 57 49 4E 42 4F 4F 54 20 53 59 53 00 00 55 AA .WINBOOT SYS..Uª > 00000200 F8 FF FF FF FF FF 04 00 FF FF 06 00 FF FF 08 00 øÿÿÿÿÿ..ÿÿ..ÿÿ.. This doesn't look like any partition table I've seen before. It's possible that the disk is not partitioned, ie. t...

> > The appliance kernel couldn't find any partitions at all on the disk. > > Is it a raw format disk image, or some other format that qemu can > reasonably be expected to read? I used the "Advanced Options" of Macrium Reflect (on Windows 7) to do a raw byte copy. If it is, then yes I'd say the image is corrupted. However you'd > probably want to hexdump