Post-Lion Macbook Pro with newly installed Hard Drive, but it won't boot up

I just bought a Macbook pro with all the stock specifications and it boots up fine and everything is great. However, when I tried to put in a new hard drive, the computer doesn't recognize it and it won't boot up (i.e. the flashing folder sign with the question mark after a long gray screen). Since the new lion installs seem to be already pre-loaded onto the hard drive it doesn't automatically connect to the internet and download Lion from the server. I was told holding down Command + R would work (as well as C, and a few others), but it still doesn't read anything! It doesn't make any sense because in the pamphlet that came with the pro said that holding down Command + R would allow you to go to Disk Utility and partition the drive or whatever, but it doesn't seem to be happening.
My harddrive is a momentus XT seagate and I heard that those are compatible with Macs. One solution I heard is that I need to get a disk of OSX Lion (by downloading it onto someone else's computer and then removing the installer file), but that seems kinda tricky considering I don't know anyone's macbook that I can do that with. Are there any other options? Am I missing something? Please help!
-Josh

Can`t you put the other drive in and then burn a Lion Installation disk?

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