OS X won't install, keeps giving me install failed screen but if I restart, I loop back to the install failed screen 54 minutes later.

I keep trying to install OS X but it fails after 54 minutes. I restart the install because that's the only option on the screen but after another install attempt, I'm looped back to the fail message. Please help, I don't know how to fix the error or get out of the install safely.

onflach,
yes, that helps — you have a 13-inch Late 2011 MacBook Pro, and you’re trying to install Mavericks onto it, which means that you have completed its download (as opposed to e.g. having an older MacBook Pro and trying to install a version of OS X that came on DVD).
Since you have a Late 2011 model, it came with Lion originally, which means that it came from the factory with a recovery partition preïnstalled. The next time that you restart it, hold down a Command key and the R key so that it boots into the recovery partition. Does the recovery partition identify itself as being Lion, or as being Mavericks?

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