Can I make a recovery disc on one laptop and use it to "recover" another identical laptop?

[moonpupy]

Laptop had a nervous breakdown, lost its windows OS. We decided to move it to Linux like the laptop I'm using. Now right after the Toshiba logo pops up and leaves us with a blinking curson on a black screen. Help?

 

[evolt]

Hello,

Theoretically yes you can do a full backup with many freeware and then restore it to that machine using that software's own boot cd.

Regards