Apple Care Less.

Here is my experience with 27inch iMac late 2010.
The hard drive started to make loud noises in October 2012 and after internet searches found out my machine was part of the seagate hard drive replacement program. I took my machine to Apple shop in Milton Keynes and had the hard drive replaced. I was also told that my screen had contamination and that I was allowed to have a free replacement screen.
I took the machine back 1 week later and had the screen replaced. Upon getting the machine home it wouldn't start up and had to call the genius bar first thing in the morning. They assured me the machine had been tested before I took it and told me to bring it back to the shop. After taking it back I was told by one of the technicians that some wires had not been connected and it was their mistake. They offered me an itunes voucher for my wasted time...
Fast forward two months and I get the spinning beachball on almost all programs I run and then the new hard drive fails on me. Less than two months old !
After speaking with one of the genius people I was told to boot into recovery mode and erase the hard drive and do a fresh install. I downloaded Mountain Lion twice and on both occassions got the following message: install failed. Osx could not be installed on your computer. The installer encounted an error that caused the installation to fail.
I have already erased and made a new partion on the hard drive so cant understand why the download of ML wont install. What are my options other than taking it back to the shop for the fourth time ?
Thanks for your advice in advance.

Pion1 wrote:
I downloaded Mountain Lion twice and on both occassions got the following message: install failed. Osx could not be installed on your computer. The installer encounted an error that caused the installation to fail.
After all the trouble before, this is really not adding positively... I understand.
However, was there any other detail in the error message, like a number or so?
The spinning beach ball can have many reasons that must not be Apple's or OS X's fault - seriously. Perhaps a funky 3rd-party app or so. Let's get back to that once needed. But better, let's avoid it by making it a truly "clean install":
Installing OS X onto a freshly formatted disk.
Installing apps manually and from scratch - only 100% ML-compatible versions!
Manually copy your docs and files back onto the machine.
All this to avoid some culprit from the previous install back over to the lean and clean future OS.
About 1.:
Follow these instructions, if you somehow can from Internet Recovery.
More then!

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