OS X Lion reinstallation - Missing recovery system
Hello,
I'm trying to reformat a late 2011 MBP to it's original settings with a fresh install of OS X Lion. The reformatting of the Macintosh HD has already been done and that wasn't an issue, it's the installation of the OS that's the problem. For the record, this computer has had issues in the past and has been "repaired" by the people at the genius bar, but has had previous problems of not working properly.
Every time I've tried to install OS X Lion, I've gotten the error message that it couldn't create a recovery system. In Internet Recovery mode, I went to Disk Utility and it seems to have this odd extra volume on the computer called: Mac OS X Base System. My Macintosh HD cannot be partitioned because the entire drive of 500GB seems to have been converted into CoreStorage. I've done some research so I don't know much about how any of this works.
I've tried booting from Mac OS X Base System (from my readings, it seems that this is just Recovery HD renamed), but got an error message asking to shutdown and restart my computer. There was an error with the Installer.dmg (sorry I can't take a screenshot of it). Thus I can only boot in Internet Recovery Mode.
I've looked through the Terminal and typed in diskutil cs list as well as diskutil list.
For some reason it lists like 13 different disks, though only the first 3 are used.
I don't have detailed info but here's the gist of what I thought was most important:
Disk 0: GUID 500GB
Disk 1: EFI 209MB
Disk 2: CoreStorage 499 GB
Disk 3: Apple_Boot 650MB
Disks 4-13: Untitled, varies in size from 524KB to 6.3MB
Disk 1 Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 498.9GB
Disk 2 Apple_HFS Mac OS X Base System 1.4GB
I don't know what to do to fix this issue, eventually the computer prompts me to restart the installation and I have to boot it back into Internet Recovery Mode.
Any ideas on how I can fix this? I'm not a huge techie and technical jargon as why it doesn't work won't get me very far. I just need instructions on how I can get a recovery system back so that I can install OS X Lion, so that I can donate this computer!
Any help would be great, thanks!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), null