Installing new SSD in MacBook Pro

I have a MacBook Pro9,2, and I'm looking to replace the 500GB HDD with a 256GB SSD.  Right now, my plan is to use Time Machine to put an image of the old drive on an external drive, then replace the drive and Time Machine the image to the new drive.
The current drive looks to have a layout of three partitions.  Would Time Machine convert the new SSD to the same layout of three partitions?  I'm thinking this is important because I do not have an install disc, and the recovery partition is one of the three partitions.

My macbook does not recognize it.
If not recognized by Disk Utility, then it cannot be repaired or initialized in its current condition.
If a new drive does not mount, it needs GUID partition Map and to be partitioned into one MacOS X Extended (journaled) partition with Disk Utility.
If it does not boot, it needs to have an appropriate version of Mac OS X installed on it.

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