Recovery of the Internet to install OS on new SSD but now get grey screen

I recently installed an SSD in my Macbook Pro 15 late 2011. I did a cover of the Internet of the installed OS Lion on the new drive. I then migrated all my information, which using El Capitan, from my old hard drive through Time Machine and now I could not go beyond the gray screen with the Apple symbol and the spinning wheel. Any suggestions?

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I recently installed an SSD in my Macbook Pro 15 late 2011. I did a cover of the Internet of the installed OS Lion on the new drive. I then migrated all my information, which using El Capitan, from my old hard drive through Time Machine and now I could not go beyond the gray screen with the Apple symbol and the spinning wheel. Any suggestions?

You damaged OS X by restoring a backup made with a new version of OS X that you were running at that time here. In any case, from what you say, it seems that you didn't need to install OS X Lion: you can restore the backup directly on your SSD without having to reinstall OS X.

To do this, Internet recovery includes an option to restore a Time Machine backup. Just boot into Recovery Internet, plug the old hard drive to your Mac, choose the option to restore a backup Time Machine in the "OS X Utilities" window and follow the steps. The SSD will be formatted, your Mac must be up and working soon.

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