Nable to install Mountain Lion because i havent purchased it.

Hi to everyone.
I just bought this Macbook Pro off a friend of mine and i whipped the hard drive clean only leaving the boot.
I got a Mountain Lion system file and tried to reinstall it as it was but with a clean hard drive but it wont let me because i have not purchased it. I then tried to purchase it but the only way to purchase it is off the app store (which i cant access due to not having a operating system installed).
I dont know anyone i could go on their computer to purchase it so i feel stuck!! Please help.
Thanks in advance, Phil.

gridsnap wrote:
wow. no patience for newbies here, huh?
It's not that you're a newbie, it's that you just dismissed the advice.
And, like many others, I've been helping folks here for the better part of 14 hours today. And we're all volunteers.
did YOU read that I read on another site that it didn't work for someone? So that's why I didn't read the whole article.
Everything doesn't work for someone. Don't put a lot of stock in what one person may say -- he/she may have done it wrong, or there may have been an entirely different cause.
I only have a 256 GB SSD, so yeah, I do have bigger storage problems.
You are seeing 128 MB, not GB, right? That's 0.05% of 256 GB.

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GreyWullf wrote:
Good day ALL,
I am upgrading my Mac mini to add a second hard drive (solid state). After the HD install is complete I plan to re-install Mountain Lion and transfer my Applications, Files, etc from my backup. I am very comfortable with installing Mountian Lion on the solid state drive and making it the bootbale drive, my questions are:
1. It is a 120G soloid state hard drive, so I only plan to use it for the OSX system, Library and Applications. Should I include other files?
2. I plan to use my 750G SATA drive for the Users. How do I set up the User Folder archive on this drive? Do I just move it?
3. Then how do I ensure the User Folder on my backup, gets retored on the right drive?
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Regarding 1:
$ cd /Users. sudo ditto myname /Volumes/TimeMachine/myname copies everything in $HOME to non-TM backup.
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Files that are heavily accessed/shared by users would be consideration for the SSD
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If you have sufficient external storage, back-up your pre-ML /Users either with ditto as I did, or with TM, somewhere other than the 750GB drive.
Use DiskUtility and repartition the 750 as one (or more) GUID HFS+Journaled partitions depending on planned usage.
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Message was edited by: VikingOSX

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