Help with new SSD install

I've installed a new Crucial m500 ssd hard drive into my late 2008 macbook pro but when I start it up i'm getting a disc symbol with a question mark. Can anyone advise please?
I think I may need to clone the new drive first but I don't have a SATA cable and I kind of wanted to start fresh. I have backed up my data onto Time machine stored on my WD mybook live so I thought I could reinstall from there once I had installed the new SSD into the macbook.
I've never done this before and not so great with Mac's or Pc so any advice would be a huge help.
Thanks

kennyfr wrote:
I've installed a new Crucial m500 ssd hard drive into my late 2008 macbook pro but when I start it up i'm getting a disc symbol with a question mark. Can anyone advise please?
I think I may need to clone the new drive first but I don't have a SATA cable and I kind of wanted to start fresh. I have backed up my data onto Time machine stored on my WD mybook live so I thought I could reinstall from there once I had installed the new SSD into the macbook.
You're getting the disk symbol and question mark because there's no OS on the new SSD.
Another method to do this would be to reinstall your old drive. Create a USB thumb drive (4GB) Recovery HD using the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant. You will need to download the Disk Assistant first then run it against your thumb drive. This puts the Recovery HD from your internal drive onto the thumb drive. Then reinstall your SSD and boot into your thumb drive via selecting it when pressing the Option/Alt key. From the thumb drive you'll have the OS X Utilities menu so you can format your SSD and install OS X. And during Setup of  OS X for your SSD you can use your Time Machine back up (if you  have one) to migrate user accounts, data and apps.

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