![]() If you installed Lion, you will have to login to the App Store and download/install your purchase of ML.If you were able to install OS X ML, skip to step 11.After the download and install of OS X you can run through the setup creating your user account (same as you had on you old drive).Go back to the OS X Utilities Menu and select Reinstall Mac OS X.After you replace your drive and you are booted into the OS X Utilities Menu from one of Steps 3-5, select Disk Utility and format your new drive as Mac OS Extended-Journaled with the GUID partition table.Since you have a mid-2011, Internet Recovery will ONLY allow you to download and install Lion since that's what probably came preinstalled on your system. If you have neither of the above, after replacing the drive, restart into Internet Recovery by pressing/holding the Command+Option+R keys.If you don't have a USB thumb drive with the ML 10.8.3 installer, download the OS X Recovery Disk Assistantand use a 1-4GB thumb drive to create a Recovery HD on the thumb drive you can boot from.If you have a USB thumb drive with the ML 10.8.3 installer, skip to step 6.Review Steps 3 and 4 BEFORE you replace your drive. ![]()
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