How To Do Fresh Install of Lion (Not ML)? ML Bricked My Mini

I am at the point that I need to reinstall Lion 10.7.4 onto my Mini that I attempted to install ML on. None of the recovery from Apple cures the ML panics after the several ML install attempts.
I need to do a fresh install of Lion, but need instructions.
Thanks.

If your Mini came with Lion then you can use Internet recovery:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

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Fresh install mountain lion

I am having to many crashes on my Mountain Lion (upgraded from Snow Leopard) and want to reinstall Mountain Lion and see if this doesn't work. My Mac crashed about once or twice a week and most recently this caused my Outlook for Mac to be corrupted. Tied to rebuild DB but it is not working.
How can I fresh install Mountain Lion removing all from my HDD and recovering my data safely?

Found my old Mail, so basically back to normal.
However had two crashes since I've done everything and now I am concerned that my Mac issue might be hardware related:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 98 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          1
Anonymous UUID: 23CD7216-4D50-7B4A-8707-9F5D58539F0F
Thu Oct 11 08:09:45 2012
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f84da8b25): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff80a3c66000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
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0xffffff80800daff0 : 0xffffff7f84da8b25
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0xffffff80800db6f0 : 0xffffff7f85e4400f
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0xffffff80800db8c0 : 0xffffff7f85e2a239
0xffffff80800db900 : 0xffffff7f85de5e81
0xffffff80800dba80 : 0xffffff7f85e267fe
0xffffff80800dbb40 : 0xffffff7f85de498a
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0xffffff80800dbc20 : 0xffffff8004a64b8f
0xffffff80800dbd70 : 0xffffff80046981e1
0xffffff80800dbe80 : 0xffffff8004620aed
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0xffffff80800dbf00 : 0xffffff800461961b
0xffffff80800dbf70 : 0xffffff80046a5b16
0xffffff80800dbfb0 : 0xffffff80046ced53
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f84d41 000->0xffffff7f85043fff
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dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f84caf000
         com.apple.GeForce(8.0)[2E56ED9A-D848-3795-9E52-56BABDC9000C]@0xffffff7f85dd8000 ->0xffffff7f85e9afff
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Kernel slide: 0x0000000004400000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8004600000
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I have installed Lion as an upgrade (and copied off the installer to an external HDD). The Emergency disk partition is there - and I assume it works.
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To answer my own question a bit further. The following two links both show how to install Lion without the need to first have Snow Leopard installed.
http://www.informationweek.com/byte/howto/personal-tech/desktop-os/231002151
http://www.eggfreckles.net/notes/installing-lion-clean/

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I want to do a fresh install of Lion on my Mac. What is going to happen to all of my iPhone and iPod touch apps when I do this? Is there a way to back them up and then add them back to iTunes when I'm done?
I already have all of my photos, movies, music, Mac app .dmg's and documents backed up on a 1TB drive (not time machine, just manual). But what about my iPhone Apps?
I have spent a lot of money on these things and I do not want to have to buy them all again.

Try a safe boot by holding down shift key during boot
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CAN'T FRESH INSTALL MOUNTAIN LION

I have a mid 2010 17" MacBook Pro.
Had been using it for years till now.
Recently, I reinstalled mountain lion and boot camp (for web ATM).
The first time it couldn't boot up was 2 weeks ago. No matter how I try, just couldn't boot up after I used **** windows.
I thought it was virus from windows, so I re-do it again.
This time, I can't even fresh install mountain lion, it says there's some problem with the installation program, and ask me to try again.
I even made a flash stick of ML, and says the same thing.
I tried all the disk utility stuff. verify, recovery, clean.
And I used the Apple Hardware Test tool to test it, says nothing wrong with my mac. (I did extention test as well.)
My Hardware Description:
Name: MacBook Pro
Model: MacBookPro6.1
CPU: intel Core I5
Core Number:2
CPU Speed: 2.53 Hz
L2 Cache: 512 KB
L3 CPU flash memory: 3 MB
BOOT ROM VERSION: MBP61.88z.0057.B0F.1112091028
System Serial: C02DXOXODC79
What happened to my MBP???? Please help~
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Boot up in recovery mode, erase the HD, and restore the OS. Details in Recovery and About OS X Recovery. Also, see Internet Recovery

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The installation went fine and I am now booted into 10.7.1.
I am trying to use Migration Assistant to migrate files over from a Time Machine backup that is on a separate internal hard drive in my Mac Pro. Unfortunatley MA does not recognize the drive as a source. The hard drive is visible to me in Finder, yet when I dig deep into the structure some of the folders are not accessible to me since I do not have read/write permission. I had to enable the permission for the drive initially but that does not cascade to the entire contents of the drive. I enabled root access in attempt to get around this didn't work.
Is my problem one of permissions or what else?
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Try Lion Community and TimeMachine
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iPhoto cannot be opened because of a problem
Matty....
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A few weeks ago my iMac had a serious bug with iMovie. So now I want to prefrom a fresh install of Lion. I have already backed up my data and know how to get to recovery.
But I don't know which drive to erase.
Do I erase The "500.11 GB ST3500418ASQ Media" or the one below it "Macintosh HD"????

Hi,
Macintosh HD is normally it, (the Boot Drive), & quite sure it is for you.
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I have an older iMac 24" (2007) that has been up-graded to Mountain lion. I want to replace my hard drive with a bigger one (has 500Gb). How can I re-install Mountain Lion on my new drive? I have Time Machine on this machine.

Install 10.6 and 10.8 onto the new drive exactly how you did it on the old drive, except that you won't need to pay to redownload 10.8. Alternatively, if you kept a copy of the 10.8 installer, you can just rerun it.
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I have a fresh install of Lion and upgraded to Safari 6.0.5

I have a fresh install of Lion and upgraded to Safari 6.0.5 installed all patches and updates. Crashes immediately upon launch. Sig_Sev. Error.

Try a safe boot by holding down shift key during boot
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I want to reinstall an app fresh install from iTunes not from my iCloud, I go to manage storage I stop backup and delete app by turning green button off, but when I ask to download it again from iTunes it is only downloading it from my iCloud.
Please assist
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You don't really delete app that way, that way to stop backup for that app in icloud.
You need to delete it from your home screen and then while it still will look like download from icloud - app will start fresh.
However if app uses any account sign in the stuff that is attached to sign in will come back, so if you do not want to you need to use
fresh account as well.

Cannot make a fresh install of Lion on my Macbook Pro.

Whenever I try to reinstall Lion through the Recovery HD menu, the installation goes fine up until a moment when it prompts me that if I would really like to cancel the installation procedure, even though I did not cancel it.
I click to not cancel it, but it does it anyway.
How can I work around this?
Also, when doing reinstallation, I deleted completely my Mac HD. The only difference there is between the current installed OS HD is that it is Journaled and Case-Sensitive, whereas the fresh install I wish to do is only Journaled.
Thanks in advance.

Without Snow Leopard you cannot purchase or download Lion, so you haven't much choice unless you wait until Apple releases their USB flash drive with Lion later this month - $69.00.

Fresh Install of Lion - Questions

I plan to format my MBP and install Slow Leopord from the disk, then install Lion. I want to start over fresh in order to eliminate some annoying problems I've been having. However, before doing this I have a few questions I hope some of you can help with.
1. iPhone - how do I back up all my iphone content so when I connect it to iTunes on the fresh Lion install that it won't want to erase everything on my iPhone. I want to make sure that when I connect the first time it won't do the whole "You've never connected to this computer before...." Is there a way to back up my iphone content on bot the iPhone and iTunes and somehow put it on the fresh installed computer? (I sure hope that makes sense).
2. iTunes - Can I back up my iTunes media and import it back into the fresh install of itunes? If so, how?
Much Thanks for any help.

Hi PsychTech,
Sounds like you have an Xserve Cluster Node which doesn't come with a CD/DVD drive. How many drive bays does it have?
If it is then you'd be stuck to running 10.5 on it. Mountain Lion will only install on the 2009 Xserve which does have a DVD drive in the top right corner.
To be able to get into the servers you could do the following.. Find a copy of Tiger or Leopard on CD/DVD.. Either create a bootable image of it and start from a USB/Firewire Hard disk. When you boot up DO NOT go to install OS X but instead go to the Utilities menu and you'll find an option to reset the password which will at least get you in. You can do this with the client version or server version of OS X.
Hope that helps
Beatle

How can I install OSX lion on my completely wiped mac mini?

I have a 2011 mac mini server edition (Without CD drive), and tried to partition it to a RAID0 last night. I reformatted both drives (Just the inner partitions, so It shouldn't have affected the recovery partition), and now it will not boot.
When I turn the computer on, it flashes a question mark folder, and when I boot with option, it gives me a list of wireless networks on a grey screen. When I select my network, it logs into it, but doesn't do anything further. It will not let me boot into the recovery partition at all.
How can I re-install lion on this computer? I do have a firewire cable, so I could do target disc mode if that's even possible.
Thanks!

DopeyBovineMan wrote:
That just isn't practical for me, to be booting off an external.
Would a flash drive work, or something to that effect?
nope, you need a external drive 1TB in size to hold all the data from the 2-500GB's and double as a backup when the RAID 0 fails which they are twice as likely to do.
you can only install OS X on a Mac, so once it's there you clone it to the 1TB, option boot from it, create the RAID and reverse clone.
no Lion Recovery, that's why you need another way to get Lion back, that's why you got to make the Lion Recovery USB first before doing anything.

How do I fresh-install OSX ML without the disk?

Hello guys,
Sorry I am kind of newbie with this stuff but I have a question and I hope you can help.
I have a Macbook Pro 2010, it originally had "OSX Snow Leopard" installed and it came with a "recovery disk".
So, when OSX Mountain Lion came up, I bought the digital version from the Apple Store and installed it, so my mac is currently running on Mountain Lion.
Now, I need to backup my stuff and then format my mac. As I have lost my recovery disk, I cannot use the restore feature which came with it. I have only one partition which is called "Macintosh HD" which has everything in it.
My question is:
-If I have pre-installed version for the Macbook Pro, should I only use the recovery disk (which I don't have) to format?
-If I don't need the original disk, can I make my own recovery disk with "Mountain Lion"? If that exists, is it safe to do that? Can the software find my original key and etc. when I do it?
-How do I format my mac if I can solve the questions above?
Thank you very much in advance, I appreciate the help.

Take a look at this article on the Recovery HD. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
When you installed Mountain Lion, it installed a Recovery partition on the hard drive. You can't see it normally, but if you hold down cmd-r when you restart, as Chris and Niel suggested, it will boot into that recovery partition. From there you can erase your Macintosh HD volume and reinstall the OS. You'll need to know the AppleID you used to purchase Mountain Lion in order to reinstall.
The bootable clone suggested by Niel is handy to have if anything goes wrong. You'll have something to fall back on while you try to sort out the problems.
You will likely need the replacement disks, as Niel suggested. If you have to install a bare hard drive, you won't be able to install Mountain Lion directly. You'll have to install Snow Leopard first, then upgrade it to Mountain Lion. So, you need the original disks. As also mentioned, all of iLife will be on those disks. The OS does not have iPhoto, iMovie, etc. Those come bundled with a Mac, but are not part of the OS.

How To Do Fresh Install of Lion (Not ML)? ML Bricked My Mini

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