Replace Hard Drive - 2007 iMac

Hi,
I recently upgraded/replaced the orginal 320GB HD in my mid-2007 Intel iMac with a 1TB hard drive using the Recovery Assistant Tool I downloaded and installed to an external USB thumb drive prior to replacing the hard drive. I was able to reboot my iMac, select the Recovery Disk Assistant on my external USB drive, install Mountain Lion over the internet and perform a restore from a Time Machine backup. Worked great.
I will need to perform this same hard drive replacement procedure on a similar mid-2007 iMac for my son. The hard drive on my son's mid-2007 iMac has crashed hard, and Disk Warrior cannot even repair it. My question revolves around the Recovery Disk Assistant Tool that I used to replace the hard drive on my iMac. Since I downloaded this Recovery Disk Assistant Tool on my iMac and then installed it to an external USB thumb drive, can I use the Recovery Disk Assistant program on my USB external thumb drive to perform the same hard drive replacement procedure on a different Mac computer, in this case my son's iMac?
Thank you,
Jon

Kika Wai\'Alae wrote:
I just installed a new hard drive in my iMac, alls fine until I login. It is not taking my password. How can I overirde this?
Please create your own thread, while I'm sure you don't intend to be rude by interjecting into another's thread you are. It's called Thread Jacking. Please create your own thread and someone can help you out.

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