2 Laptops 1 Recovery Disc..Possible?

I have 2 Toshiba A200 laptops - one of them the hard drive has broken.
Am i able to make recovery discs off the one that works to do a recovery on the one that is broken when i replace the hard drive?
Thanks in advance...
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