fresh install on refurbished MBPro

[aaronoafc]

Someone I was speaking to from another firm mentioned he'd bought a macbook pro (refurbished) it had come on 10.7. Now he wanted to wipe the machine and put 10.7 back on however he didn't have the download/disk or anything.

I told him to use internet recovery to erase the disk (which he wanted to do) then install from there. Is this right or would there be a better way to do this? Would he be able to just install 10.7 from internet recovery without having purchased (himself) in the past, would the macbook remember that it came on 10.7 and just install it?

Thanks

 

[djfmf]

I just did this recently with my refurb. took out the stock 500gb, put in a blank 120gb ssd and used my wifi to download a new mountain lion osx. very clean and quick install, wish windows had this type of feature.

 

[aaronoafc]

would it be possible to do this with Lion though, as you can no longer get copies of Lion can you? (except through internet recovery?)

 

[Irock619]

would it be possible to do this with Lion though, as you can no longer get copies of Lion can you? (except through internet recovery?)

Yes. The Internet recovery feature was new when the 2011 models came out with Lion. If it doesn't work they can create a thumb drive with the recovery disk assistant. All you need is a thumb drive with 1Gb of space....
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433

 

[Weaselboy]

would it be possible to do this with Lion though, as you can no longer get copies of Lion can you? (except through internet recovery?)

If you do Internet recovery it will give you whatever version came with the machine... Lion in your friend's case. It is linked to the serial number.