Replacing SSD in MacBook Pro Retina- HELP PLEASE.

I just ordered a new OWC 480gb SSD for my MBPR mid 2012 15". I am replacing the original SSD which failed. I have a few questions about how to go about using the new SSD, once installed.
here is some background.
1) the drive will be blank and unformatted with no OS.
2) I have a time machine back up on my time capsule. The original disk is completely dead.
3) In addition to Mavericks I also run Windows 8.1
Questions- once I replace the old drive with the new one:
A) how will I format my new SSD? I am guessing disk utility will come up when I turn the commuter on?
B) how do I get Mavericks Mac OS on the new drive? Do I need to pay? How will I get my time machine back up on the new drive?
C) should I format the new SSD a special way because I will be running windows on the machine? I ran windows with Parallels on the machine prior to my original SSD dyeing, was planning on doing the same with the new one.
D) what, if anything, can be done to avoid killing this new SSD like the last one? I am happy OWC has 3 yr warrantee on it!
Thanks in advance for help and guidance. I am a relatively novice user, so basic explanations will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave

DaveG303 wrote:
here is some background.
1) the drive will be blank and unformatted with no OS.
2) I have a time machine back up on my time capsule. The original disk is completely dead.
3) In addition to Mavericks I also run Windows 8.1
Questions- once I replace the old drive with the new one:
A) how will I format my new SSD? I am guessing disk utility will come up when I turn the commuter on?
B) how do I get Mavericks Mac OS on the new drive? Do I need to pay? How will I get my time machine back up on the new drive?
C) should I format the new SSD a special way because I will be running windows on the machine? I ran windows with Parallels on the machine prior to my original SSD dyeing, was planning on doing the same with the new one.
D) what, if anything, can be done to avoid killing this new SSD like the last one? I am happy OWC has 3 yr warrantee on it!
Thanks in advance for help and guidance. I am a relatively novice user, so basic explanations will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
You should be able to boot from your Time Machine back up and do everything Internet Recovery and Recovery Mode allows. If not, restarting with Command+R will search your drive for the Recovery HD and if not found envoke Internet Recovery. Or you can just boot with Command+Option+R to start Internet Recovery directly.
A. After you install the new drive and IF it is pre-formated, you don't have to reformat it. If it's not, you can use Disk Utility from the OS X Utilities menu to format it.
B. You can install OS X Mavericks from the OS X Utilities menu and during setup plug in your TM back up to restore your user account(s), apps and data.
C. Nothing different for running Windows since you use Parallels instead of BootCamp. I have not used Parallels, but i would assume after restoring your apps you would restore your Parallels virtual machine image for Windows and open it.
D. Do you know what killed your original flash storage drive? If you do, don't do it! If you don't, I personally don't know of anything that would prevent a computer component from failing.

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