Help -2,147,483,648 hours remining reinstalling OS X Lion

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Help -2,147,483,648 hours remining reinstalling OS X Lion

Hi! I just recently purchased a 2012 MB Pro from a private party and today I erased the hard drive via disk utility to start over as new user from scratch, now trying to reinstall Lion over wifi connection and I have the same exact problem! Can you advise? What were you able to do to resolve the issue? Thanks for your help!

"But while it was reinstalling the bar was 100% though the time remaining was about -2,147,483,648 hours and 37 minutes remaining. The minutes change every second (13 to 37 to 1 to 30 and so on) though the negative hours stay the same."

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Oct 13, 2014 11:07 AM

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emvmac Author

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Oct 13, 2014 2:02 PM in response to dominic23

Thanks for the feedback, I allowed the install over 45 minutes to see if the time remaining would change but it did not. So I quit the install, rebooted, and then started the install over again two or three times. No luck, same issue. It's weird how others who have had this problem, it is the same exact number: -2,147,483,648 How has anyone who's experienced this issue gotten it resolved?

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dominic23

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Oct 13, 2014 2:22 PM in response to emvmac

As I said wait until it is done. I have seen this happen. Eventually it will download and install. Some have waited couple of hours for this to happen.

Just download it and wait for couple hours. Please don't do anything else but wait.

Best.

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dominic23

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Oct 13, 2014 12:39 PM in response to emvmac

Wait. This time remaining stat may change.

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gete

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Oct 19, 2014 2:17 AM in response to dominic23

I get this impossible time 2,147,483,648 or similar to finish every time I do a system restore, which unfortunately I seem to do frequently these days after 2 or 3 crashes per day !!

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