Computer does not boot, blinking underscore

Why were you restoring an Image? was it malware? There has been some talk recently of a BIOS infecting virus.

You could try disabling the BIOS splash screen to read any error messages. Also seeing if USB Drives are still bootable.

In the BIOS there will be an option (probably under startup) to show a splash screen / boot logo. Turning the logo off will allow you to see the info posted by the bios, are the drives all detected etc

The setting if available (BIOS is virtually the same as mine) is in:
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But you can achieve the same thing by hitting [TAB] as soon as the display initializes, Both the optical drive and hard disk were detected at start-up.

Is the image stored in a seperate partition on the primary drive or another source?

The blinking cursor generally means there was no bootsector found on the first device, this usually proceeds onto the next device in the sequence.

Is your windows disk written properly/damaged (e.g. known to be bootable previously or in another machine).

You should be able to boot if you can get Acronis True Image bootable iso on a CD/DVD/USB Drive you should be able to serlect this as the boot device and begin the whole recovery process again.

Oh yes, i get it now. The image is in my external usb disk (with other stuff in there). But in the Bios Device Priority there is no option to select USB. In the other hand in the Hard Disk Drives menu there is this (MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service) but it doesn't matter if i put the USB Hitachi on first or in second drive

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Oh yes, i get it now. The image is in my external usb disk (with other stuff in there). But in the Bios Device Priority there is no option to select USB. In the other hand in the Hard Disk Drives menu there is this (image4) but it doesn't matter if i put the USB Hitachi on first or in second drive

more photos here

Just waiting for mega-upload (p.s. if you scale the pics down you can upload them here)

Although the USB Drive contains the image, It is probably not bootable (unless you wrote the image to the drive instead of just storing it on there and added the other data later).

You should also keep your internal drive set as the "First Drive" in drive order, because this is the drive windows will install it's system information on, even if installing to another drive.
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Although swapping these around should make the USB drive appear in the boot device menu if thats something you wanted to try.

There does not appear to be a fault with your BIOS so booting from a CD should be possible.