Restoring backed-up files to different TX-2000

I purchased a new Vista TX-2000 in 2008, which is now having motherboard problems. It is backed-up with the "Backup and Restore Center" that came with Vista. I depend daily on the unit for my business and have been told by HP Help that I may loose the hard drive files when the MB is replaced. To cover the possibility, I have purchased a used TX-2000 from E-Bay. It is in good shape and appears to be vintage 2007, with a smaller size hard drive (120MB vs. 250MB). The failing unit has two partitions, created originally by HP. The E-Bay machine was third-party re-formatted with a single partition, with no Recovery files, nor included the original Restore CDs. Both machines have Vista, SP2.
Other details: HP Help says there are no Recovery CDs available for the E-Bay machine. There is adequate room on the E-bay machine for restoration of the files.
Questions:
1) Can I restore my backup from the failing machine to the E-Bay machine?
2) Do I need the drives on both machines to be identical,both size and partitioning?
3) Can I just physically transfer the drive from the failing machine to the E-bay machine or is there an embedded number that has to match the drive boot record (or whatever it's called nowadays)? Can I harm the drive by trying or will Vista mark the drive in some way to make it unusable with the original machine?
Just for completeness, I have spoken to HP Help about this a half-dozen times and got a different answer each time. They appear now to be no more than a message center and their "experts" just read off their monitors whatever a database search says. Definitely HP Help is no longer technically knowledgeable.

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