Can I use my windows 7 recovery disk on a different computer?

My best friend has a Toshiba Satellite, Intel Celeron M, XP sp3. It's running incredibly slow, I've tried to clean it up per Blackviper's instructions to absolutely no avail. She has no recovery disks. I was going to re-install XP from my Dell desktop disks or Windows 7 from my latest computer purchase, an ASUS Notebook U80 Series. Is this possible or even advisable?

Thanks in advance.


texasharper

 

How to order replacement recovery media from support at Toshiba.com:

Recovery media can be ordered online. There is no charge for the software itself, for which customers already own licenses, however as of 11/5/11 the shipping and handling charges for delivery of recovery media in the US is $29.95 for DVD media or $39.95 for USB sticks.

Click here to start the process of ordering replacement recovery media from Toshiba: http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/System-Recovery-and-Recovery/Recovery-media/m-p/9148#U9148

Click Here: For Additional Toshiba Satellite Online Support (Downloading of Drivers, etc.) http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp?nav=download

Good Luck...

COMP

 

Sorry, I forgot to mention, bff is a single mom who struggles to put food on the table and Christmas is right around the corner.

Can anyone advise and explain in response to my original post?

 

Don't use Win7 recovery on XP/SP3 machine. You apparently can already boot windows, albeit slow, but I wouldn't give up on the existing system, yet.
Recommend you look at our Guides and FAQs forum and use this link to Computer Maintenance there:
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=106650

I am not familiar with Viper's cleanup methods, other than service configurations, which isn't a good starting point for a slow machine. There are more likely reasons for being slow, e.g. too many programs starting on boot, full hard drive and insufficient virtual memory page, programs in conflict, drive access PIO mode, and maybe malware, or a combination of things.

Try the link here first and maybe the group can help followup.
Good luck:wave

 

Short answer is no.

 

StruldBrug, thank you for your very detailed reply!!! I will not only apply that suggestion to her machine, but, to all mine also.

Colemanguy, there is something to be said for short and succinct.....it is appreciated!!

 

I've tried it, it is ok but not recommended.