Create a Lion Boot disc for another computer with my OSX10.9.5 IMac

I hope I can get this working. My company has an older laptop with Lion that has crashed. I've tried all the solutions and the results are all that the drive needs to be erased and Lion re-installed. I've purchased Lion and need the laptop to boot from an external drive so I can see if any user data can be recovered before I erase the drive. The problem is, my Mavericks machine won't let me choose the drive (external, formatted and ready) to install Lion. Im getting the following message "This version of Mac OS X is too new to run "Install Mac OS X" from Mac OS X 10.7."
Is there any way I can get around this? I see listed on the Install ESD Packages, System, MacOSX_Media_Background.png, private, and Library. Can I just drag those to the external drive and boot the older laptop without running the Install MAC OS X Lion app?
Sorry if these are stupid questions but I really need to know. I've got to get this machine running today, while trying to salvage anything possible.
Thanks for your time and consideration!
Tina

You can make a bootable USB stick to install using this free program which will do all the work for you.
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You can use Disk Utility's Restore tab to coy the data to another drive. Note doing this will reformat the destination drive.

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