Using Vista Recovery USB on a different Laptop

I bought 2 identical HP dv7-1273cl Vista 64-bit notebooks 4 or so years ago and never created recovery disks. One of the laptop's disk is trashed; it's so bad it is not recognizing the disk. My question: Can I create a Recovery USB drive on the good notebook and then use it to recover the bad notebook? I have purchased a new disk. If no, could a suggestion be made.
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Steve
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Hi,
As long as all the hardware and version of Vista ( ie home premium, professional etc ) are identical, the recovery media created on one of the machines should work on the other - one point to note is that the replacement HDD should be of the same capacity ( or slightly larger ) as the original drive; smaller can cause issues with the recovery process.
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