I thought about this some more at lunch time so I'm making some edits to my original response:
As I previously admitted, I have no familiarity with your hardware. Does the C: partitition have the NTLDR, ntdetect.com and boot.ini files on it? If so, then you have a separate boot partition and system partition scenario. This was more common in the early NT 4.0 days when rocks were soft and hard drive capacities were lower than they are today. If so, then restoring the C: partition would be the easiest way to get the test system going again.
If you are up for the challenge, you could try restoring the three above mentioned files from the C: partition image to the E: partition of the test system. You would still have to edit the boot ini file. My original instructions below still apply.
Assuming that that your SRD is the newer version built on MS Vista, boot into the recovery environment and click on the Analyze tab. Open "Explore my Computer" and verify the drive letter that the SRD thinks your recovered drive is. If you explore that drive, you should be able to see the boot.ini file, but won't be able to edit it here.
Exit out of "Explore my Computer" and run "Open Command Shell Window." Change the drive letter to the letter of the recovered drive, and get to the root of the drive with "cd \" if not already there. Next run the command "Attrib -h -s boot.ini" Next run the command "notepad.exe boot.in" Edit and save the boot.ini to reflect the correct partition. Then run the command "Attrib +h +s boot.ini" to reset the original file attributes.
If you are familiar with the fixboot and bootcfg commands, these may also be needed. You should be able to run these from the SRD. If not, then the original installation CD booted in repair mode will do this. Fixboot will write a new bootsector to the recovered drive. Bootcfg can also help with scanning for windows installations and writing their entries into the boot.ini file. using the /? parameter on each of these commands will get you the details you need
Hopefully this will work for you.