How do i reload my pre installed mac mini with no lion disk

Hi, I bought a macmini in december 2011, the 2.5ghz with amd HD6630m vga card and i want to reload lion on my mac but i have not received restore disk with it, my mac did not come with any ? When i try and do a internet restore it tells me i did not bye lion ? my mac came preloaded with it. How do i go about reloading lion ? If this can not be done, how would i installl mountain lion should it come out this month ?
please help as i am new to reloading macosx as i always used windows reloads that was a lot simpler with a dvd.

Most of those cleaner programs are useless unless you have a specific problem that warrants their use.
Clearing Caches will slow the computer down for  the short term as the caches are used to speed it up. Until they get rebuilt, you'll see slowness.
There aren't any useful Mac "maintenance" programs. Some of them can be useful for specific problems, but shouldn't be used periodically, "just in case."
Is there anything in the Activity Monitor that is using a lot of cpu%
Third-party programs that are incompatible might be trying to do something they can't. Check for updates if you find any.

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