Unabe to download an already purchased copy of OSX Lion from App Store.

Hi,
I have a Macbook Pro mid 2010 with osx 10.7.5. I purchased, downloaded and installed Lion on 20 July 2011.
Now I want to download it again to make a usb installer and to do a clean install again to my mac but I'm not able to download it by the App Store.
If I go on the purchased section of my App Store it gives me the option to download but when I push the download button the result is that nothing happnes.
Thank you if someone could give me some help.
Riccardo

It isn't just the hard drive - there is firmware built in that will prevent you from booting wih Snow Leopard. If you do a search here, you'll find many threads trying to install an earlier OS than what the machine came with all with the same answer (unless the Mac was built right around the time of a new OS being introduced, then it is possible to be booted from both OS's). In this case, you'd be trying to go backwards by 2 versions. Also see here:
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And yes, if you use internet recovery and first erase the drive (available in Disk Utility within the recovery partition) and then reinstall the OS, it'll reinstall the OS on a blank drive and you can start over. If the machine is new, then Command + R during restart should automatically boot into internet recovery (connecting you to Apple's servers by showing a spinning globe while connecting); if the machine is a bit older, then Command + Option + R will boot into internet recovery.

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