Lion recovery reinstalling lion

Hey everyone I just ran lion recovery a few hours ago and it was downloading OSX lion again. about 10 minutes ago the download process was just a bit longer than 50%, I went out for 5 minutes and upon returning, i saw the laptop restarting and starting to install OSX lion. Is this just a calculation error or is there a possibility it wasnt fully downloaded and now just installing a corrupt segment? Im assuming that it wouldnt run the installation without checking the file, but I had to ask.

The progress indicator is not accurate.

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Then restart your Mac and try Safari.
Safari 7.0.4 won't run on Mountain Lion. Only v10.9 Mavericks.

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I was reistaling my computer using toshiba recovery hdd image and my power whent out and now everything is gone.
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Hey man what are you doing? It is logic that OS installation should not be interrupted and notebook must be connected to AC power supply.
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http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01867124
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Is there a way to get a Montain Lion recovery disk?
Would reloading Mountain Lion erase any new data since I installed it?
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You have a built-in Recovery Partition (hidden):
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718
http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/
Reinstalling doesn't overwrite any files in your User's home folder, including applications. Some applications that put files into system file areas may have to be reinstalled.
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http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/264620-restore-specific-f iles-time-machine-backup.html
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I've recently bought a new iMac (Core i5) that came with Lion pre-installed, but I needed Snow Leopard for all my older software e.g. Photoshop CS, so I got the sellers to install SL for me. Everything is fine.
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I don't want to try it out without advice, in case Lion overwrites SL irretrievably.

christopher rugby wrote:
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If your machine only has SL and the Recovery HD, then the only thing you can do when booting into the latter is REINSTALL Lion on top of SL or do some basic things, but Lion isn't installed. Details in Recovery/ and About Lion Recovery.

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This computer is a non-retina mid-2012 MacBook Pro.
Using DiskUtil in Terminal shows the correct disk configuration:
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   0: GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
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This is completely normal. By booting OS X Recovery you are accessing the Recovery partition.
The Recovery partition is normally hidden, since it is intended to be for "emergency use only". As a longtime computer user, this may understandably annoy you, but there really is nothing you ought to do with it.
Reinstalling the OS won't help since it will just recreate the recovery partion, even if you reformat or completely replace the drive.
You may see suggestions from users from time to time to reinstall OS X. This scatter-shot approach is almost never justified on a Mac, since most problems are due to conflicting or poorly written third party software unrelated to the OS, and a reinstallation won't help.
Replacing a failed hard disk is one valid reason to reinstall OS X. It's difficult to come up with any others.
See the diskutil manpages to determine how to mount the recovery partition so that you may examine its contents (which are read-only). You'll then be able to get yourself into all sorts of trouble.
This excerpt from the Lion Ars Technica review may save you the time:
Doing so reveals the partition as a normal HFS+ volume. The top level contains a directory named com.apple.recovery.boot which in turn contains a few small files related to booting along with an invisible 430MB internally compressed disk image file named BaseSystem.dmg. Mount that disk image and you find a 1.52GB bootable Mac OS X volume containing Safari, most of the contents of the standard /Applications/Utilities folder (Disk Utility, Startup Disk, Terminal, etc.), plus a Mac OS X Lion installer application. In other words, it looks a lot like a standard Mac OS X installer DVD.
That was the idea - to eliminate the need for a system recovery DVD.
As you can see the recovery partition probably won't have much to interest you anyway.
To get a better impression of how all this works (N.B. the following is NOT for the faint-hearted):
Clone your system to an external volume
Boot from the external volume
Completely erase your internal HD, removing all existing partitions
Unplug your external volume and boot OS X Recovery
Reinstall OS X

What does the recovery disk assistant store?

hello everyone, my questions:
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2.is it necessary to use the recovery disk assistant often or is it enough to use once.
thanks
Fatih.

As it said in the link I posted:
has same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari. This drive can be used in the event you cannot start your computer with the built-in Recovery HD, or you have replaced the hard drive with a new one that does not have Mac OS X installed.
And here it is explained further:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
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Hi
You might find that you are missing the first of two recovery CD's . You will probably battle to get a replacement Product Recovery CD, as the laptop is about four years old. You could try your local ASP's or alternatively install an original generic (non OEM) Windows XP Home/ Pro CD.
Maybe other users could confirm this???
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