Macbook Air is preinstalled with Lion but not marked as "Installed" in app store

Hi all
I'm trying to restore my macbook air and im at the step to restore lion in recovery mode. When i proceed to install, I'm asked to login with my app store id then i get the message "You must sign in with an apple id that was used to purchase lion"...... but lion is already pre-installed when I bought my macbook air.
After checking in the app store, it's isnt marked as "installed" as per other posts i've seen but it has the price $29.99.
Do I have to buy Lion again just to restore my macbook?
Thanks in advance for the help.

vikas4s wrote:
My MacBook Pro was pre-installed with MAC OS X LION.
That's why. You didn't buy it from the App store.
You can only get a physical copy of it if you buy the OS separately.
There's no reason to need a physical copy unless you are trying to install it on another machine, which you don't have a licence to when Lion is pre-installed. It's analogous to the old gray disk/white disk difference in the old days. Gray disk (comes with your computer) can't install on any other machine. White disk (you buy the OS separately) will install on anything.
If you need to re-install on your own machine, you use the Recovery disk or the Internet recovery mode.

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