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‎02-04-2017 01:14 PM

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Product: Pavillion 23 Model 1250
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I bought two HP Pavilion 23-1250 computers at the same time.  I use one and my wife uses the other.  the hard drive on mine crashed.  I am thinking of buying a replacement drive, however, and I know this is bad, I do not have a recovery disk.  Would it work to make a recovery disk from my wife's computer and use it to format the new hard drive in my computer?

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‎02-04-2017 01:27 PM

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Hi:

 

I don't see that you have anything to lose by giving it a try.

 

The recovery media will be good for your wife's model anyway.

 

It should work as long as the recovery media doesn't check to see that the serial number of the PC matches.

 

I think that some folks have used recovery media make from one PC of the same model on the other.

 

I just can't be 100% certain about that.

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