Lion Recovery Disk Assistant Question

[SR45]

Some what confused even after doing a Google search....

My question to anyone in the know is, if I were to reformat the hard drive or the drive died of me, and I put in another new hard drive, would this lion recovery disk assistant program that I now have on a USB thumb drive work with a internet connection or would I have to install fresh a new iOS Lion ?

I have the Lion USB thumb drive on hand if necessary but wanted the recovery partition back again if possible.

Thanks in advance....

 

[johnhurley]

Some what confused even after doing a Google search....

My question to anyone in the know is, if I were to reformat the hard drive or the drive died of me, and I put in another new hard drive, would this lion recovery disk assistant program that I now have on a USB thumb drive work with a internet connection or would I have to install fresh a new iOS Lion ?

I have the Lion USB thumb drive on hand if necessary but wanted the recovery partition back again if possible.

Thanks in advance....

I just went thru all the steps of upgrading ( my machine went from 2011 base mbp 13 to 8 gb of ram and a 7200 rpm disk ).

I pulled the disk out ( stashed away ) and installed new drive and used USB rec disk to reload everything.

Yes it does eventually reinstall Lion after downloading it ( takes a while depends on bandwidth ) and yes it will recreate a new recovery partition on the new disk.

 

[SR45]

That makes it easy with the Lion recovery disk assistant program and having the recovery partition back again on a new drive.

I reloaded Lion the other day using the normal Command+R method with a 5400 rpm drive, and it took about 1:32 min total.

Many thanks for the reply johnhurley