Installing New Internal HD

Hello all,
I have decided to self-install a Seagate Momentus 750gb internal drive into my early-2011 macbook pro 15" because the original HD was "about to fail" . I am unclear as to the steps necessary , once the new drive is physically installed , to get back to a functioning computer with OS X 10.7 . Can I simply power on and reach this point http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=HDDppcintelformat/HDDppcint elformat.html ? It seems unlikely to me that a completely blank drive will have Disk Utility ready and waiting on it ? And , once the drive is succesfully formatted , will it be possible to download Mountain Lion using the OS X Internet Recovery ?
thank you all ever so much for any and all assistance

e.forrest.m wrote:
ah ha , this is a problem . indeed , my MBP is an early-2011 15" meaning snow leopard was pre-installed . i no longer have the discs . what now ?
Your easiest method is to create a USB thumb drive with your current Lion install's Recovery HD using the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant from Apple. Install this on your current system and run the app to create the thumb drive. THEN you can use that to boot into the OS X Utilities menu after you install your new drive. Create the thumb drive and test it first.
I would still do a clone of your current drive if you can. You need some sort of backup so you can restore your data.
If you have a current Time Machine backup with Lion on it, you can boot from that which will provide the OS X Utilities menu so you can format the new drive and reinstall Lion. Boot from this first to test so you understand what I'm talking about.
Edited: I suggest you still try the Command+R+Option keys at boot time to test out and see if you have this feature. I had a late 2010 MBP and after Lion was released, a new EFI firmware update came along that allowed THAT MBP to boot into Internet Recovery and reinstall Lion. The update also provides this functionality to early 2011 models.That 2010 MBP came preinstalled with SL too. So, if you have kept your MBP current with all the updates, you may have gotten an EFI firmware update that allows your MBP to use Internet Recovery.

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