Help! Lion Install Taking Over 4 Hours

Thanks in advance for reading and helping out. I have a mid 2009, 15 Macbook Pro 2.53 Ghz whose hard drive failed. So I bought a Seagate Momentus and also replaced the RAM with two sticks of RAM that came from another Macbook. I formatted the hard drive successfully (Journaled) and now the installation is saying 4 hours 53 minutes to start!
What else could be the cause here?

Assuming you've already installed Snow Leopard version 10.6.8 on your new HD and you've gotten the download link for Lion from an App Store purchase, the installer is about 4.74 GB in size, so unless you've got a very fast internet connection, it's going to take a while to simply fully download to your Mac. Once that's done, it'll still take a while for the installation to complete. Moreover, I've found that Apple's time-remaining predictions aren't always reliable.
We're also assuming that the RAM modules your transferred are fully compatible (2008-2010 MacBooks and MacBook Pro's appear to share the same type of DIMM up to a certain size but we don't know how much RAM you've installed or what the donor MacBook was).

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