How can I get Lion for Fresh Install

[BasilFawlty]

I just bout a new MBP with Lion. As you know it did not come with a Disk for the OS. So, how to I get Lion so I can install to an external drive (fresh install), so I can then swap drives in my MBP?

 

[sofasurfer]

I just bout a new MBP with Lion. As you know it did not come with a Disk for the OS. So, how to I get Lion so I can install to an external drive (fresh install), so I can then swap drives in my MBP?

Download Lion from the App store and then these sites will help you create a bootable USB drive.

To make a bootable USB drive

http://www.macworld.com/article/160124/2011/05/osxflashdrive.html

and instructions on what to do with the Lion download

http://www.macworld.com/article/161069/2011/07/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.html

I followed these and my MBP now has Lion and I have a bootable USB Lion disc.

 

[praetorx]

Download Lion from the App store and then these sites will help you create a bootable USB drive.

To make a bootable USB drive

http://www.macworld.com/article/160124/2011/05/osxflashdrive.html

and instructions on what to do with the Lion download

http://www.macworld.com/article/161069/2011/07/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.html

I followed these and my MBP now has Lion and I have a bootable USB Lion disc.

All MBPs that have Lion pre-installed come with a recovery partition you can use to perform a clean factory install of the OS.
Hold the command+R keys while the MBP is starting to access the recovery environment.

 

[sofasurfer]

All MBPs that have Lion pre-installed come with a recovery partition you can use to perform a clean factory install of the OS.
Hold the command+R keys while the MBP is starting to access the recovery environment.

But the drive the OP has hasn't got Lion installed on it so no recovery partition.

 

[hotgrease]

But the drive the OP has hasn't got Lion installed on it so no recovery partition.

I believe you install the new drive and hold the option key on startup. Connect to a wireless network and then you can download the OS directly.

 

[Nameci]

Connect the drive to the mac, restart on the recovery partition and point the installer to your external drive.

 

[thundersteele]

Connect the drive to the mac, restart on the recovery partition and point the installer to your external drive.

This should be the easiest solution.

 

[Nameci]

sometimes you just have to think out of the box... if you are afraid to experiment you will never learn.

 

[randomrazr]

umm ur answer would be in the instruction manual or could have used the searched bar