Long story short, OS got deleted and can't reinstall.
Computer was running pretty slow for a while, last night I got the pinwheel of death for a solid ten minutes running only Chrome and Itunes. Got fed up and reinstalled mountain lion overnight, woke up to an error screen. Tried restarting, computer no longer has an OS, gets error whenever I try to reinstall Mountain Lion. I am absolutely BEGGING anyone for help.
You do have a recent & usable backup of the system, don't you......
Did the Mac come with Mountain Lion when new? If not, then you'll have to restore Lion, then upgrade back to ML.
Will it boot in Recovery Mode and do the reinstall (plug to Internet, hold down Command-R prior to the startup chime, select reinstall, wait a LONG while for the 4+ GB installer to download) ?. If it came with Lion, you'll have to visit Recovery Mode's Disk Utility to ERASE the Macintosh HD volume first so the installer can downgrade the current ML installation.
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