10.9.1 installs, then system turns off and does not restart.

10.9.1 installs, then system turns off and does not restart. When I eventually turn it back on, it installs again, then turns off.. Endless Cycle.. I have booted to restore disk, found errors that needed to be repaired and tried to repair them but system told me, after a few minutes, its not possible to repair. When I restart back to main disk, it shows the install AGAIN and then turns off. Much appreciate any Ideas?

All I can tell you is that:
Antivirus software, aside from being next to useless on Macs, is a common source of problems with Mavericks.
Google Drive was incompatible with Mavericks last time I looked.
WD hard drives have software that comes on the drives that is incompatible with Mavericks, software that comes with the drives that they want you to install on your mac which is incompatible with Mavericks, and in some cases firmware in the hardware of the drive enclosure itself which is incompatible with Mavericks. And all of this software is completely unnecessary. The good folks at WD have really worked hard to ensure that their products won't work with Mavericks. Bless their little pointy corporate heads. I'll bet that's the last WD drive you'll buy.
Basically you would need to get all this stuff uninstalled from your hard drive before it will reliably work with Mavericks. But even then, it might not work, because old/bad/incompatible software can alter your OS and the kernel such that uninstalling it won't help- the OS/kernel may be damaged such that you have no alternatives other than to erase the HD and start over. And anyway, currently you can't boot your HD to be able to access the Finder so unless you're going to spend a weekend with the Terminal you won't be able to uninstall that stuff in the first place. If I were you I'd just go ahead and erase the HD and install Mavericks from scratch.
10.9.1 doesn't come on a CD. If you had another (working) mac you could make a bootable installer flash drive with DiskMaker X and an 8 GB key drive DiskMaker X (formerly Lion DiskMaker) , but then you'd still have the same problem, the incompatible software would still be on your HD, unless you erase it first before you try installing Mavericks again. So there's really nothing to gain by having the Mavericks installer on a disk.
If you have a third party utility like Techtool Pro 7 you might be able to boot from the TechTool disk and repair your HD enough for it to boot.
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