Mountain lion install issues

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Mountain lion install issues

When I tried installing mountain lion, it gave me an error about not being about to create a recovery partition, then had me quit it. It had me restart to go to my previous OS x version. However it just starts installing again and puts me in a loop. Right now I have FileVault on. I have a bootcamp windows partition. I need to either find a way to finish the install. Or boot regularly. Then I can backup, wipe, and clean install.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jul 26, 2012 10:20 PM

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baltwo

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Jul 27, 2012 3:04 PM in response to Brad.Collett

Apple's poorly documented process (or lack thereof) when dealing with filevault and bootcamp always cause havoc. Peruse the hits from a google search for install recovery hd w/bootcamp volume site:apple.com and hopefully you'll find a solution, since I don't have or use either.

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clee85

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Jul 31, 2012 5:30 PM in response to Brad.Collett

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1464

same problem. update lion recovery. then reinstall. worked for me.

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shawn666

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Aug 2, 2012 11:39 AM in response to clee85

i tried this the other day and it wouldnt let me install the update, any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks

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sas5437

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Aug 12, 2012 5:55 PM in response to clee85

clee85 wrote:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1464

same problem. update lion recovery. then reinstall. worked for me.

Can't do that from 10.6.8 apparently.

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Brad.Collett Author

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Aug 12, 2012 6:15 PM in response to Brad.Collett

Well, i never figured out how to fix it from there. I ended up doing several other things. I booted from my time machine backup and decrypted my HD using disk utlilty. From there i backup all the files on the HD and wiped it clean. I proceded to install each of my previous systems until finally... mountain lion. Though it was a bit annoying having to place all of my files manually.

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