How to reinstall OS on macbook pro

I am going to install a SSD in my macbook pro
I heard that you need to reinstall everything after installing a SSD (I don't know if it's true or not)
Please tell me how and what do I need to reinstall.

accuracy_101 wrote:
Can you inform me on how to format the new hard drive once I receive it?
You will have to connect the new HDD to the MBP via USB (you will need to install the HDD in an enclosure).
Boot into the recovery partition.
Select Disk Utility from the 4 option menu.
Open Disk Utility>Erase, select the new HDD from the left hand column and select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format and click on the erase button.
Exit Disk Utility and select the reinstall OSX option from the 4 option menu.
Install the OSX.
Restart the MBP with the OPTION key down. Select the new HDD icon and boot the MBP.
If successful, install the new HDD into the MBP.
Ciao.
Also, should I even bother re-installing the OS after there is a new hard drive installed? Would it make any difference?
You need an OSX in order for the MBP to function.
Ciao.

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Can you inform me on how to format the new hard drive once I receive it?
You will have to connect the new HDD to the MBP via USB (you will need to install the HDD in an enclosure).
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Ciao.

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msmedia wrote:
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I would like to offer this solution. I have a MacBook Pro with an external monitor, and, for a year and a half both displays slept when I closed the MBPS. This behavior stopped when I installed Lion. They would sleep when I removed the power cord, but what a pain that would be. The command "pmset -g assertions" gave no indication of which process ought be preventing sleep.
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