Corrupt registry?

If anyone can help I would really appreciate it.
I have a Toashiba Equium A210 - 1CA running Windows 7. A couple of months ago the screen totally frooze with nothing happening for quite some time. Fortunately i had a computer friend visiting who looked at it and changed the hard drive. Everything worked ok for a month or so. Last week it did the same again.The screen frooze and would not carry out any functions. I left it for half a day with no change.
Now Windows will not start up. It runs the windows repair service but I get the message "Startup repair cannot repair this computer automatically". Whe I look at the details it gives the following info:
Problem Signature 1    6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 2    6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 3    unknown
Problem Signature 4    21200833
Problem Signature 5    Autofailover
Problem Signature 6    13
Problem Signature 7    CorruptRegistry
I have tried system restore which will not work and factory restore disk.
Does anyone have any suggestions. I do not want to just go and replace the hard drive if it does exactly the same again.
Thanks
David

Your answer is in Corrupt Registry arena as indicated in your finding as STARTUP LOGS are destryoed. Something added has corrupted a specific registry line(s) that even restore/recovery cannot correct. There is a good Anti-virus program installed we assume and malware program, as needed? To happen to a new drive is not uncommon but of a low ratio. Screen freeze could be assumed video and thus overheating could be occurring. Taking in for a service diagnostic would be advisable.

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