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Q: Error occured during osx maverics reinstall

I have a late 2011 macbook pro. Yesterday, when i went to turn it on, a grey progress bar appeared under the apple logo and after its done, my mac shuts down. So, i took it to an apple service centre and i was told that it need to be reformatted. So, i backed up my data via target disk and continue to disk utility. After i erased my hard drive, i tried to reinstall osx but it provides an error "an error occured whIle preparing the installation. Try running the installation again". So i ran it again, multiple times and the same error happened.

 

please help. I urgently need to do my work.

Thank you in advance.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Sep 10, 2014 7:43 AM

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  • by RIFerrarr,

    RIFerrarr RIFerrarr Sep 10, 2014 8:03 AM in response to nizamkowreck
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    Sep 10, 2014 8:03 AM in response to nizamkowreck

    Are you installing Mavericks using the Recovery Partition, through Internet Recovery, or other? Do you reformat after the error each time?

  • by Linc Davis,Solvedanswer

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Sep 10, 2014 12:47 PM in response to nizamkowreck
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    Sep 10, 2014 12:47 PM in response to nizamkowreck

    If possible, set the system clock as instructed here. If you can only start up in Recovery mode, see below.

    Select Get Help Online. Safari will launch. While in Recovery, you'll have no access to your bookmarks, but you won't need them. Load this web page.

    Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:

    date 0801000014

    Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.

    Select

              Utilities Terminal

    from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open. Paste into the window by pressing the key combination command-V.

    Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear below what you entered. If it doesn't appear, press return.

    Quit Terminal to return to the main screen. Try the installation again.

  • by nizamkowreck,

    nizamkowreck nizamkowreck Sep 10, 2014 2:53 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Sep 10, 2014 2:53 PM in response to Linc Davis

    Thank you linc davis. Finally i can install it.