How to install MacOS without CD?

Hi,
Recently I just bought a new MacBook Pro but it doesn't comes with an installation CD like it used to. May I know how do I reinstall the MacOS if I changed my HDD? I read the manual but all it says is using the utilities to reset factory default but I assumed that the drive is the same. If I put in the new drive, the utility should be gone right? Please advise.

So let me get this straight.
1: You bought a new MacBook Pro with Lion factory installed
2: You wanted to change the hard drive, so you made the copy of the Lion Recovery Partition on a USB using the Disk Assistant. (hopefully you made a clone os OS X Lion as well)
3: You exchanged the internal hard drive
4: You option booted off the USB and attempted to install Lion
5: It wouldn't work saying your Apple ID didn't purchase Lion.
Ok, all I can think of is you didn't register the new MacBook Pro, or the Apple data banks didn't get updated yet to take your new factory Lion MBP purchase yet, perhaps they didn't expect anyone to want to switch thier new internal drive out right away.
I guess you didn't install the EFI Firmware 2.2 update while you had the previous drive in, because that update is supposed to install the Lion Internet Recovery in the new 2011 MBP firmware, so supposedly upon boot it would kick in and offer to install Lion on the new hard drive.
https://register.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/GlobaliReg.woa
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