05-03-2012, 03:10 AM

Originally Posted by harryb2448

G'day OP and welcome to the forums.

If you purchased Lion from the App Store you can go back in, hold down Option and hit Purchases and Lion will come back up. Double click and download again f.o.c. Do not run the Installer but follow these instruction for making a USB thumb stick which will be bootable.

Make a Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Installer from a USB Flash Drive

You certainly can do option 3 in your list. First up follow the Lion USB thumb stick suggestion.

harryb2448,

How can I make one from preinstalled lion on my MBP?

Thank you

05-04-2012, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by aestable

ok, cheers. Note to self: get an external HD with screws - I have a WD MyPassport and I have no idea how to open the **** thing :-)

Is this one that looks kinda like a slim book with a plastic piece that goes along the 3 edges? If it is, it's not too hard to open, but it might not go back together. If you pry up one edge of the "book cover" part then you can pull out the plastic piece and HDD part.

05-04-2012, 11:43 PM

Yes you can assuming you purchased Lion from the App Store originally.

Go back into the App Store and hold down the Option key and hit Purchases and Lion should come up. Double click and download again and follow thumb drive instructions.

05-05-2012, 12:17 AM

Originally Posted by harryb2448

Yes you can assuming you purchased Lion from the App Store originally.

Go back into the App Store and hold down the Option key and hit Purchases and Lion should come up. Double click and download again and follow thumb drive instructions.

But I didn't purchase it from app store. It's preinstalled when I bought it. How can I make a bootable thumb drive out of it, as you described earlier on you post.

Thanks