System Restore from USB - problems

I just switched HDD with another macbook (a 2,1) and it works fine, now my HDD is in the 3,1 body. There was freezing from the off so I decided to restore (from USB - Snow Leopard) the system from time machine to nip any problems early on. The restore finished correctly, i reset, and it hasn't booted since. All I see is the Apple logo and the circular rotating 'busy' icon.
I checked my external HD on a different system to see if it had been corrupted - it hadn't.
SO I don't know what to do now. I think trying to restore again would make sense, but i'm not sure, and I cannot find how to access the restore USB either.
Any advice or suggestions?

mjf123098 wrote:
I restored from a liveUSB which I made,
How did you make it?
thinking that it would have the same functionality as my original DVD however I don't know how to boot direct from USB so thats a problem.
See [Startup Manager: How to select a startup volume|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310].
When I restored I did did a full system restore from my last time machine backup - however I realised yesterday that this final backup was made on the system after I switched the HDDs so would just have compounded any errors already there. I should have restored from the last fully working backup, which was the one before that.
However this was onto a new machine, so you could be onto something there. I would like to re-format the HDD and then try to install from the last working backup however as the macbook does not now boot, and I have no CD to hand (waiting for that to get sent over here) looks like I am stuck for the time being.
Is this a fair assessment?
Maybe.
Both macbooks were running 10.6.6 the only differnce between being one is a 2,1 and the other a 3,1 version.
If they were both on 10.6.6, unless one was brand new (and might have been on a different build of 10.6.6), the problem isn't the wrong version of OSX.
It may be that a different Mac's backups were restored, but that usually doesn't cause such severe problems, especially on similar Macs. See [Mac OS X v10.6: Issues after restoring a Mac from a Time Machine backup made with a different Mac|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3243]. As noted there, the fix is to simply reinstall OSX from the correct disc, but you can't do that yet, either.

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