Mavericks destroyed HD and OSX 10.7 installation on a 4,2 machine

I have a MacBook Pro 4,2 that had OSX 10.7 Lion on it. When "upgrading" to Mavericks, the installation completely destroyed the hard drive. Fortunately I was only using it as a media server with a minimum of installed apps and software, and the data was stored on an external Firewire drive. It was not possible to recover either with the recovery partition or by reformatting the drive using Drive Utility and/or a complete reinstall of the OS from an OSX 10.7 install USB stick that I bought from Apple some time ago.
My guess is that Apple has disavowed or deactivated this installation because it requires an Internet connection to Apple to verify the conputer and likely the USB stick/OS installer. Error was, "A problem occurred... bla bla. Try reinstaling OSX" at every attempt to make the drive come back to life because of whatever Mavericks did, it left the drive "mounted". I was finally able to reformat the drive using Drive Genius (no, Disk Warrier did not work since it could not overcome the "mounted" attribute) that was run from a clone startup drive (Carbon Copy Cloner) made from a different machine using 10.7.5. Even after reinitialzing and creating a new partition, the OSX 10.7 install stick could not install the OS! This is unacceptable! The final solution was to clone the other machine's boot drive onto the hard drive of the damaged machine. I'll give the Mavericks update another try after the cloning is complete. I am disappointed that Apple does not do adequate regression testing on older machines, since this issue did also occur a couple of years ago at the upgrade to OSX 10.7 download on the very same machine, prompting me to buy the USB stick at the Apple Store and rebuild the machine then too.
A word of warning to those upgrading: Be sure that you have a backup/Time Machine/Carbon Copy Clone of your machine before you start in case of issues like this.

Compatible models:
•     iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
•     MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
•     MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
•     MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
•     Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
•     Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
•     Xserve (Early 2009)
http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/

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