Install OSX on a fresh hard drive

I have a 2009 17inch Macbook pro and just swapped out the old hard drive for a new 1TB 7200rpm hard drive.  How do I transfer the OS from my old drive to the new hard drive on my macbook?

First of all, if you have not got one, get a USB to SATA adapter. This will allow you to connect the old hard drive to one of the USB ports of your computer.
Then, after connecting it, your Mac should start up from the old hard drive automatically. If not, hold the Option (Alt) key while your Mac is starting up and choose your old hard drive (probably labelled as "Macintosh HD").
After starting up, open Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities) and use it to format the new hard drive with a GUID partition table and "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" as "Format" > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html
Finally, Disk Utility provides you a feature that allows you to clone partitions to another drive, so you can use it to transfer your files to the new hard drive > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU7.html Choose your old hard drive as "Source" and the new hard drive as "Destination".
When you have finished, turn off your Mac, unplug the old hard drive and turn your Mac on

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