Excellent! Thanks. (Me, though, I'm gonna go the thumb drive route.)
> Option #4: Internet Recovery. If your machine shipped with Lion, then it has in firmware sufficient recovery logic to establish an internet connection and net-boot off a recovery partition on one of Apple's servers. From there, you can install the latest version of Lion, even onto a completely blank disk. It'll even initialize the disk for you, in case it's not already GPT/HFS+(Journaled), and re-create the Recovery HD partition, so you won't have to use Internet Recovery every time.
How do you access Internet Recovery (which sounds like the missing piece in the puzzle)?
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(Me, though, I'm gonna go the thumb drive route.)
