My new MBP 15 came with Lion, how to install on new SSD

[kanit]

Ok, so my MBP 15 high end came with Lion preinstalled. I have bought a 256gb SSD for it. Now how do i install OSX on that SSD without actually having to buy Lion???

 

[hawk1410]

A simple google search would have pointed you in the right direction. Anyway, download and install Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, it lets you create a bootable flash drive.

 

[snaky69]

A simple google search would have pointed you in the right direction. Anyway, download and install Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, it lets you create a bootable flash drive.

Forum users like to be spoon fed readily available information, that's how it works.

 

[Modernape]

Or clone it with CCC

 

[MoonshineSG]

if the mac came with lion, you just replace the hdd with the sad and start while holding "Option - Command - R". This will load the recovery from the firmware (for those macs that came with Lion pre-installed)

 

[Weaselboy]

Or clone it with CCC

This will give him a working system, but no recovery partition. You need to install Lion first, then do then clone. At this point that is the only way to get the recovery partition properly set up on the new drive.