New 2012 non retina MacBook Pro disk replacement

Hi Guys,
I'm attempting to replace my disk in my new MBP 2012 non retina.  I have a really nice solid state disk that I was using in my older MBP, and I want to use that in my new one.
I've tried a couple things, and still can't seem to get it to boot to it though.  Latest was to boot with Command -R and go to Lion Recovery and choose Install Lion 10.7.4 to my solid state disk plugged into USB.  That seems to have copied files over to it, but does not want to boot to it.  When I choose it, I see Lion install disk, but then just get the "no disk" icon. 
I'm assuming I can boot to this USB disk.  I don't want to take it all apart again and plug the solid state in to the mother board until I know it will work.
My next step is to do a disk util and wipe the Solid state and then try to install again using Lion Recovery.
Are there any tips I'm missing here?  The Lion I have from the App store when I launch it, I get an error about not supported version.

try this.  see if it sorts it out for you.
keep your ssd plugged in the USB.
open up disk utility. format/erase using Mac OS extended journaled.
once that's done, open carbon copy - free download if you don't have it.
start cloning your drive to your ssd.  you will get a pop up message saying a lion recovery partition wasn't created. Create one with carbon copy.
Proceed to clone your drive.  Once that's done, you can do a test boot buy selecting your ssd as your start up drive.
Once it boots up, install it in your macbook.  Power up and you should be back in business.
One more thing, sometimes you have to select your SSD as your start up drive if you get issues.

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