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Hard drive upgrade and OS install.

I am installing a new hard drive in my late 2011 Macbook Pro. How do I get the OS X to install? I don't think I ever had an OS disk.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Apr 25, 2013 4:07 PM

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Apr 25, 2013 4:10 PM in response to jonathanfrommoorpark

Put one drive in an enclosure and use a program such as the Disk Utility, Carbon Copy Cloner, or SuperDuper to move the existing Mac OS X installation to the desired drive. Alternatively, put the new drive into the computer, connect it to the Internet, start it up with the Command and R keys held down, and reload the OS from the recovery partition on Apple's servers.


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Hard drive upgrade and OS install.

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