Installing Lion 10.7

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I upgraded to Lion and now i want to replace my HD with a SSD, how can i make a Lion USB drive now that i have upgraded?

Is it best to do a time machine backup? ideally i would like to do a fresh install
 
You will have to download it again if you haven't done so already.
uckily, there is a way to re-download the file if you prematurely installed it without backing it up. Follow these steps:
1.) If you have the Mac App Store open then close it
2.) Reopen the Mac App Store while holding down the Option key
3.) Continue to hold the Option key and then go to the Purchases link
4.) Within Purchases (and yes your still holding Option) click on the OS X Lion installer button. This will give you the option to download the OS again.


Read more: http://techheavy.com/2011/08/re-download-mac-os-x-lion-at-any-time/#ixzz1UFavvVLd
Agree, deffo go for a fresh install
 
Connect your SSD as a second drive and use SuperDuper! to clone the existing drive onto the SSD. Sorted. Of course that's not the fresh install you wanted but it will get you going.
 
Drive Genius 3 or Techtool Pro 6 should be able to. However if your boot drive is b0rked anyway making a cloned copy isn't likely to help.

What's the actual problem with your air?
 
uniQ said:
Drive Genius 3 or Techtool Pro 6 should be able to. However if your boot drive is b0rked anyway making a cloned copy isn't likely to help.

What's the actual problem with your air?
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There isn't one now, I was going to make a 1:1 clone for offline restores so I didn't have to use internet recovery mode as for new MBA users there is currently no offline restore mode available. Not even USB or DVD mode.
 
So just use CCC. It will create a bootable copy to any partition/drive you specify. Once you have cloned your drive you don't need to use CCC to boot from it. You just hold down the alt ⌥ key at the chime then select your cloned drive to boot into it. You can then run CCC again to clone it back to your main drive.
 
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So just use CCC. It will create a bootable copy to any partition/drive you specify. Once you have cloned your drive you don't need to use CCC to boot from it. You just hold down the alt ⌥ key at the chime then select your cloned drive to boot into it. You can then run CCC again to clone it back to your main drive.
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It's no good because I wanted to clone the SSD from the point of setup of OS X.
 
Is that because you have an SSD and prefer a clean install? On paper the Internet recovery sounded great but I'm starting to think the current way of USB/DVD is far better.
 
uniQ said:
Is that because you have an SSD and prefer a clean install? On paper the Internet recovery sounded great but I'm starting to think the current way of USB/DVD is far better.
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It's great if you have a fast Internet connection and in an area where your online. If your at a place with slow Internet or no Internet your stuck.

I want to make a backup for offline reasons. I won't always be near a fast connection.
 
Johnny|lucidcomposure said:
iDroid whats wrong with running CCC at the point you fresh install 10.7 and just clone it at that point. Then if you ever need it just CCC that hdd to another one to use?

I dont understand what you can't do?

Its just like taking a screen shot?
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I would prefer it to be cloned at the point of setup ao no personal information is in the system.
 
You could always use the Terminal whilst in the OS X Lion setup? Google for 'dd disk clone', essentially the basic syntax is:

dd if=/dev/disk0 of=/dev/disk1

Where disk0 is your internal HDD, and disk1 would be the USB HDD. I'd do a bit of reading up on this first, as if you get if/of the wrong way round you'll wipe the wrong disk.
 
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