Mountain Lion wont download to my hard drive

Whenever I open up the "Install OS X Mountain Lion" and after I press continue, and agree to the terms and conditions, it tells me OS X cannot be installed on my hard drive and when I quit and start the Installer, and I go through everything I just did, it now shows me a picture of the hard drive image faded, so when I click on it, it says "The disk is used for Time Machine backups" but it wont let me install OS X Mountain Lion still and I checked and I am not using my hard drive for Time Machine backups as well as not using Time Machine at all.

hello
i download OS X Mountain Lion with my iMac but after 3 hours not complate and now almost 2 hours is waiting
only icon is waiting now and not coming any message
can you help me what i doing?
thanks

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spritzdog wrote:
When I go to Disk Utility, that option is not available, it is greyed out?
Did you select the partition (indented, under the main line for the drive)?
The sample is on an external, but should be the same on your internal. If not, please either post a screenshot of yours, or note what's different.
I don't want to reformat the drive and loose everything? What can I do?
Does that mean you don't have backups? If not, that's risky. Hard drives fail, things go wrong, people delete things in error.

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Unfortunately, and quite idiotically, I never made a back up of my files and the lion operating system before trying to upgrade. My main concern now is just making sure none of my files were lost because of the install failure. I don't know what to do from here because I'm afraid to make a mistake and never be able to recover them again. What can I do to restore my computer back to normal? When I look under Macintosh HD in the Disk Utility option on lion recovery, it seems as if it recognizes that all of my files are still intact, because about 200 GB out of 319 GB are used up on it. This correlates to the amount of files on my disk. Pleaseeee tell me I didn't just lose all of my files. Any help will be greatlyy appreciated!
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You only need the powered exernal drive, OS X reinstall is free to install on the external drive.
Hold the option key and boot from the extenral drive.
When OS X upgrades or installs (without a disk wipe first), it doesn't touch Applications and User account folders (only Apple programs) so as long as the drive and file system works, (even if OS X doesn't boot on that drive) the files can be recovered via normal drag and drop methods.
If you can't access the files normally, only then you will have to install Data Rescue on the external drive (another $100) to read the 1's and 0's of the non-encrytped files directly, bypassing the file system structure. Thus is the price for not making adequate backups.
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In some major cities where there is a lot of computer tech support competition, you might be better with a local PC/Mac data recovery and restore service, saving you some money. But with the extenral hard drive you can then later make that a TimeMachine or clone drive, which you need anyway regardless.

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You can easily use an external HD. If your machine has Firewire 800 that would be the fastest option. If it doesn't then a FW drive would be OK too. USB would work but would be really slow. I'd recommend any of the following:
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G-Tech G-DRIVE series
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SweetThunder73 wrote:
When you say to remove the photos out of the iPhoto folder, then import the clean single copies, I am understanding that the "original" file that the decloner was run against is now the "clean" single copies?
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