Need Help with Disk Images

[Ender]

I was dual booting with my macbook running 10.4 and xp home and all was going fine until i ran parallels today. The program promptly crashed and so I tried booting into windows natively and it told me that it was missing a number of .dll files. Thinking it was going to be a lot of hassle sorting out the missing files, i erased the partition containing xp and tried to use disk utility to restore the .dmg of the partition i had containing my windows install. However i cant seem to restore the partition, as when i do it comes up with an error saying (an error 6 occured when copying, device not configured)
Any idea how i can sort this out ?

 

[Logan09]

Was the XP partition formatted as FAT32 or NTFS? If it was NTFS then that would explain why it can't restore the image as OS X can't write to NTFS.

Also is the new partition the same size (or bigger) than the old one? If it's smaller then it won't let you restore the dmg.

 

[Ender]

Its the same size and FAT32 Format, so i cant see what the problem is?
At the moment i'm attempting to get it to work by creating a bootable copy of osx on a external hardrive, booting into it , and then attempting to restore it the xp image with carbon copy cloner