How to set up Lion on the brand determine new MacBook oxygen SSD

I just took delivery of the 13-inch MacBook oxygen i7 that will develop to be my major equipment (more on that later) — but before to I can migrate to my new iron, some preparing is required.

Although I ordered my MacBook oxygen with 4GB of RAM as well as the 256 GB SSD (and won the Samsung lotto - woot!) which is not almost adequate major storage space for me. I’m steering to upgrade to some 480GB SSD from OWC now that they’ve been confirmed to hold out from the Mid-2011 MacBook Air.

While saving up the $1400 (cough!) for that new SSD I obtained to pondering about how I’d truly set up Lion onto a brand-new, blank SSD. Apple consists of no recovery advertising using the brand new machines, instead relying over a recovery partition and internet booting to bail you out should trouble arise.

I figured that I’d set up the brand new SSD blade, then boot away from your internet and set up Lion that way. since it turns out, there are truly two methods to set up Lion over a new, blank SSD from the MacBook Air.

Method 1
Use Lion’s internet Recovery mode (via Apple knowing bottom write-up #HT4718)

Note: If transferring an OWC Aura professional connect SSD employed in the 2010 MacBook Air, utilizing this method will completely erase the drive’s data. make particular you possess a Time equipment backup or clone within of the OWC Aura professional connect SSD on an exterior drive.

Method 2
Use Lion’s Recovery HD mode:

1.Make good you possess a Time equipment backup or clone of your information (from both the Apple factory investment flash generate or OWC Aura professional connect SSD) on an exterior drive. We will refer to this generate as generate #1.
2.Boot for that recovery partition concerning the investment generate by holding along Command R all through a restart or boot process.
3.Use Disk energy to make an make an effort to do a restore over a separate exterior USB drive. DO NOT use precisely the very same exterior generate that was employed for the Time equipment or clone backup. We will refer to this generate as generate #2.
4.Replace the MacBook Air’s investment flash generate using the OWC Aura professional connect SSD.
5.Boot for that USB generate #2’s recovery partition.
6.Use Disk energy to make an make an effort to do a restore for that OWC Aura professional connect SSD.
7.Restart or Boot for that OWC Aura professional connect SSD.
8.Run Apple Migration Assistant to clone your information from generate #1.

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