Acronis True Image Home 2011 has a feature called "Restore to dissimilar hardware" which essentially images A to B, regardless of what they started life as. You may also have some success installing XP on a virtual machine emulating an Intel Southbridge. I know that VirtualBox can use an ICH6 for it's south bridge, so that's a start. In either situation, you're probably going to have to pull the hard drive unless you want to set up a PXE server. This shouldn't be too bad. I had a gander at a few disassembly logs and they all seemed to suggest it's your bog standard 2.5" SATA drive. In regards to the malware, if AVG complete broke it, AND the recovery partition is non-functional, he may be dealing with a rootkit. You probably want to zero the drive before you drop an image back onto it. One easy way to do this is using the "Clean all" command in diskpart. Just make sure you select the correct drive. Best of luck.
Tried that but it didn't work on this model. My friend brought round an External DVD drive yesterday and it appeared in the boot options once it was plugged in. Strangely enough even after I updated the Bios to 2.10, I couldn't get it to boot from USB stick.
