Hard drive crashed and no image of OS

HI,
My hard drive crashed, and I am using mountain lion. And I need to replace the hard drive.
I bought my MacBookPro early 2012, so no installation DVD for lion!
Found some people showing how to do it, but it needs my OS to be running and download a copy of mountain lion through the App store, which I can't run it anymore?
So, is there another way to download mountain lion?
Thanks,

Follow mende1's instructions after you purchase and install a new drive. First, boot into Internet Recovery then use Disk Utility to format the new drive as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" with asingle GUID partition and then procede to install Lion on the new drive.
Unless you had a backup?
Clinton

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