How to Boot Windows Image Backup?

The Windows boot loader is able to boot Windows from a full Image backup. I read that years ago, and about one year ago I even testet that myself, so I know it's true.

Now that I really need to boot a backup, I cannot find the Website any more and I have no clue what I did?

What I have is a full System Image of a Windows 8.1 installations (including boot Partition, Windows Partition and data/Profile Partition), but I cannot boot it. I don't have a free hard drive to restore it just for the few seconds I Need to extract some important pieces of data.

Mounting that Images is NOT enough, I Need the bootet System...

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See Step 4: Add a boot entry.

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