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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1477816" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>Careful - the Mountain Lion download is tied to an Apple ID. I am not sure of the ramifications of downloading "with a buddie's computer" and trying to load onto a different Mac - that isn't using the same Apple ID that you bought Mountain Lion with. </p><p></p><p>You do not have to do a super duper clone of the drive. What you do is download the installer. Dig out the img file. Put it onto a bootable media. Pull the old drive - put in the new drive - then install from the bootable media. It is a clean install. </p><p></p><p>I have done this with a MBP - I pulled a 500GB drive, put a 750GB hard drive in - then clean installed Montain Lion off of a USB key. I am giving the warning because I then signed in with my Apple ID and the install thought I had all these programs from the App Store installed (even though I didn't) I had to do a restore to get all my app store apps back and correctly installed.</p><p></p><p>TL ; DR - use the right apple id - buy it from the computer you are going to clean install, make the boot disk, swap hard drives - install away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1477816, member: 145676"] Careful - the Mountain Lion download is tied to an Apple ID. I am not sure of the ramifications of downloading "with a buddie's computer" and trying to load onto a different Mac - that isn't using the same Apple ID that you bought Mountain Lion with. You do not have to do a super duper clone of the drive. What you do is download the installer. Dig out the img file. Put it onto a bootable media. Pull the old drive - put in the new drive - then install from the bootable media. It is a clean install. I have done this with a MBP - I pulled a 500GB drive, put a 750GB hard drive in - then clean installed Montain Lion off of a USB key. I am giving the warning because I then signed in with my Apple ID and the install thought I had all these programs from the App Store installed (even though I didn't) I had to do a restore to get all my app store apps back and correctly installed. TL ; DR - use the right apple id - buy it from the computer you are going to clean install, make the boot disk, swap hard drives - install away. [/QUOTE]
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