Create Windows 8 Installer for Y500

I have a client that has asked me to help him with his new laptop. He's ordered a Y500 and sperately ordered a 512GB SSD. I need to install the SSD, then install / transfer his data and apps from another drive.
Can I create Windows 8 USB install media before removing the OEM drive? He said there are no disks that came with the laptop, so I assume the windows 8 installer is in a recovery partiion. (I've never worked with a Lenovo before).
I'll be doing this in a hotel with crappy internet at best, in a small town with no place to buy anythig I would need. I'll have my Mac Book air, a couple 4GB drives, a 1TB WD External drive to transfer data and a screwdriver. I'm hoping I can create the install media from the original disk on the 4GB USB, install the new HD, and do a clean WIndows 8 install on it. Will this work?

Hi kerberos42, welcome to the forum,
I've read some posts in the forums where members state that what you propose may not work; installing a brand new drive after creating Win8 media doesn't seem to work on some systems, recovering the original drive however does work. Unfortunately I can't verify this as I don't work for Lenovo nor do I have a shed full of systems to test on.
That said I'm always in favour of cloning, which I also haven't tried on that system, but it's normally a lot quicker than installing. I don't see why it shouldn't work although I do see one problem; the One Key Recovery function would probably be broken due to the possible resizing of partitions. I'd insert the new disc as primary and clone to it with the original drive in an USB caddy using an Acronis rescue disc, I'd adjust only the "C" partition size leaving all others as were. The recovery partition, if OKR doesn't work could be reclaimed to "C" afterwards and keep the original drive safe for the possible worst case event.
I don't know how much time you have to prepare, I've got 13 years of notebook support under my belt and still get surprised on a regular basis, but I would also go prepared to make a clean install if necessary; as the Win8 product key is embedded in BIOS just ensure you have a copy of the correct version. You can always download the drivers to an USB stick beforehand or better, they should be on the original drive in a folder called SWTOOLS.
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