Do I need specific disks for specific drive?

Hello everyone,
While trying to reinstall a system software, do I need to use the specific disks which came with the computer?
I've been online trying to help a friend in Africa with her MacBook. She's lost her hard drive once and was able to reinstall the system from a friends system disks onto a newly formatted hard drive. She is now having hard drive issues and needs to do a clean reinstall but is unable to use the disks she currently has. Does she need her friends disks?
Are Mac OS disks specific for each drive and encrypted as such? I thought so, but since I have all my disks, I've never run into this problem before.
Any thoughts? Thanks.

Kappy wrote:
Yes, the discs that come with a Mac are specific to that model and cannot be used on a different Mac model. You need the original discs that came with the computer. Otherwise you can use the retail Leopard installer discs.
That's not quite true. While it's possible that the provided disks ship without various drivers, I've found that the limitation is simply a software one -- all the drivers are included, but the installer itself will refuse to run on a machine that's not of the same family. I've successfully used MacBook restore disks to restore a MacBook Pro with no trouble whatsoever. Heck, the first time I installed Tiger it was from a friend's PowerBook restore CD, onto my iBook via target disk mode.
That said, it's probably safest if you use the correct disks, or just use a retail install disk.

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