Norman,
You need to get your sharepoint farm up and up and running before you can restore the sharepoint backup.
Here is the steps mentioned:
Reinstall Windows and any Service Packs or Hotfixes.
Restore System State from the backup image.
Reinstall SharePoint Server. and any Service Packs.
Restore the Configuration database.
Whenyou restore the Configuration database, restore it individually and before
any other object in the farm.
Restore all SQL databases.
Bring the Web Application(s) or portal(s) online.
From a SharePoint front-end server, restore each Web Application or portal separately.
The front-end server is the client name that you specified in the MS-SharePoint backup policy.
Wait for SharePoint to initialize storage for the Search Index.
This may take a few minutes to occur, after you have started a newly recovered
Web Application or portal.
Restore the Search Index.
I hope this helps.
/Oddy
Norman,