How to reinstall Lion from new MBP?

Hi guys. I just bought an Early 2011 MBP with OS X Lion pre-installed. I just want to ask how to reinstall Lion? Just in case I want to reinstall the OS. Thanks! If you could post different ways of doing it, the better.

OS X Lion includes a new feature called Lion Recovery that includes all of the tools you need to reinstall Lion, repair your disk, and even restore from a Time Machine backup without the need for optical discs.
About Lion Recovery
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I'm trying to reinstall Lion from the Apple Recovery service but keep getting told after 10 hours downloading, that installation has failed.
I'm having to do this as my machine crashed a few days ago and lost access to the operating system. I did not loose files as the machine was Bootcamped and i could access from there.
Initially, I was told that the hard drive needed repairing, which has now happened and it's passed all it's tests via the Disk Utility but still no installation.
I tried booting from a usb and the download recovery but no sucess.
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John,
I think I'm "reinstalling OS X by booting OS X Recovery": I reboot with command-R depressed, or I reboot with Alt depressed and choose the recovery parition, and then I start the installation process from the list of things I can do. Are we talking about the same thing?
Yes, exactly.
I think that OS X Internet Recovery would be necessary only if you were to attempt a Lion installation with a completely empty HD, implying that even a Recovery partition has not been created. Your USB flash drive is the way to cope in that circumstance. If you can install Lion by booting the recovery partition as you described, it seems to me that it is all that is necessary and there is nothing to fix, despite the error message you see.
I'm surprised that Internet Recovery works at all, given that your Mac is not one of those allegedly eligible to use it.
Without a similar 2006 iMac to test, I can only speculate that the "abysmal distribution system" as baltwo describes it just doesn't work well with earlier Macs, and that Apple may not have tested it extensively with them. If I were you I would rely upon that USB installer much more than OS X Recovery or OS X Internet Recovery. I prefer not to rely upon any installation method that can possibly result in "the server is not available at this time" or such nonsense, but that is the direction in which Apple has been going for a long time.
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If you place the first disc into your DVD-ROM and start your computer, on the HP screen press Escape until you get a menu. Select the Boot menu, choose CD/DVD-ROM, and then enter. Press any key when it tells you to press any key to boot off CD-ROM. This will load the recovery software.
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Thanks Pondini,
I read #14 and your helpful hints. I am afraid to erase and reformat the drive because I am not as knowledgeable as others maybe. I have a website, and I don't want too loose all of my work and photos if I make a mistake.
I installed the Snow Leopard disk that came with my iMac i5 (2010), I first created a partition labeled "Snow Leopard." Started up the computer and saw the install icon. I selected the partition and followed the instructions, when that was done, I selected in Utilities, to back up from time machine on my external Seagate HD. When it was done, I noticed on the desk top two Macintosh HD, but changed back the name of my Snow Leopard 10.6.8. When I start up from the Snow Leopard HD, I see in the dock my older apps with the icon circle showing that I can't use them, like when I start up from Lion.
On the backup version on my external HD, I selected a date in March for the time machine backup. When I open up my external drive and select the apps it says, "Can't open up apps because it is in a time machine backup. Before installing Lion last week I backed up Snow Leopard in time machine and turn it off before installing Lion.
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2. If I double click on the program in the Finder the icon appears and fades slowly before opening program and then more strange behaviour e.g. Mail loads my inbox but then acts like its on speed by scrolling rapidly through all my emails without stopping
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Yes, rebooted several times.
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I have purshaced a new MBP wich came with the new OSX Lion preinstalled. Althought, I have another MBP wich came with Snow Leopard.
I wanted to install Lion on my old MBP by downloading it from the new one (i heard you can buy it once and install it on every mac you have).
Is that possible (I mean legally possible) ?
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Doing so would be against the license agreement. Lion preinstalled on a Mac is licensed to that specific Mac. Lion downloaded from the Mac App Store is licensed to you, or more correctly, to your Apple ID and you may install it on as many Macs as you personally own and use.
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So what you are sayiong is the computer you are using came with Lion pre-installed and you or someone else erased Lion and installed Snow Leopard.
Is that correct?
If so does the recovery HD partition still exist on the hard drive?
If it does or doesn't boot the computer while holding down the Command and the r keys (Command+r) and that will do one of 2 things.
1) Boot off the recovery HD partition on the internal hard drive.
2) Connect you to the Apple servers to boot the computer over the internet. You must have the computer connect to the intenet to do this.
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I recently bought a new MBP and gave my old one to my wife. I deleted the calendar and contact info from my old MBP since she didn't need it. Only I didn't realize that it would also delete all the information from my new MBP that I had initialized from a Time Machine back-up.
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However it is possible to restore from Time Machine (or another backup system if it's included your calendars) by following the following steps:
Turn off your internet connection. Make sure that it really is completely off.
Restore from Time Machine or your backup. This should restore your calendars to list under your iCloud username.
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Select a calendar listed under your iCloud login name.
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From the File menu choose Import... Select the .ics file and choose to import it into the calendar you just created (make sure you don't import it into the iCloud version).
Now your calendars are listed under 'On My Mac' as well as under your iCloud login name.
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