Corrupt Registry Problem

Hey, im in a pickle.
I bought a HP pavillion m9351 premium x64 at christmas and used it regularly since, but the only information I added to it was my photos and my itunes library via an ipod. I decided i wanted to upgrade to the HP pavillion m9365 x64 and i used the built in backup software on the PC to backup my information onto an external drive.

I received the new pc 2 hours ago, the only thing i had a chance to do was to restore the information from the external drive to the new computer. However it would not then recognise the wireless networking software and denied me access to a lot of areas.

During recovery of the information on the drive, the system recovery partition began filling up and eventually ran out of space, and i understand this is a drive which is to be untouched.

I performed a full system restore and the result is that the OS won't load up at all, i am directed to the system repair manager which provides a number of error codes, but the most horrific being 'problem signature 05: Corrupt Registry' among various others.

What have i done and is it repairable? i hope i havn't bust my computer within hours of buying it... I am unable to run in safe mode also, it still redirects to startup repair.
I would very much appreciate any help, thanks guys/girls

Dave

Edit: This is the full error list;
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairV2
Problem Signature 01: AutoFailover
Problem Signature 02: 6.0.6001.18000.6.0.6001.18000
Problem Signature 03: 5
Problem Signature 04: 196611
Problem Signature 05: CorruptRegistry
Problem Signature 06: CorruptRegistry
Problem Signature 07: 2
Problem Signature 08: 3
Problem Signature 09: RollbackRegistry
Problem Signature 10: 0
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Ouch.

Do you have a Vista install disk? Run a repair and that should sort it out...

The problem could have been caused by using a backup of another computer to that one. (different hardware)

~Lordbob

So you restored the backup into the recovery partition; that is why it might have caused the restoration failure. Try remove and reinstall battery then try restoration again. If it doesnt' help, I hope reinstall Vista will not fail.

Post back and let us know how things go.

Bruce

Ummmm,
Why did you restore your drive image/files onto the limited size recovery partition? Its like 4GB in size. If you overwrote the recovery Thats gone, but you can still reinsert O/S disk delete all existing partitions then install Vista in the unpartitioned space, then restore your data.

You NEVER save data into the recovery partition-it is read only.