Osx Lion reinstall stuck at less than a minute

hhere is the deal. I had to reformat my mid 2012 MacBook Pro after it would freeze up after startup. I reformatted and everything went fine other than the 7 hours it took. I went to reinstall osx lion and it gave me a total time of 12 plus hour. Now it has been stuck at less than a minute for almost an hour. I'm totally nervous that all this time has been wasted for this stupid macbook to just freeze up again. Any suggestions or is this normal??

I've got the exact same problem. My mac started to freeze up at random. This made it impossible to use. After I tried to reinstall everything, by potentially thinking that it might be some vius, or corruption. I've now been trying to reinstall eveything for aprox 6 hours and I'm stuck at 'less than one minute' and been so for around 2 hours.

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So yeah, new to Macs but I'm pretty sure I haven't done anything wrong.
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Got my new mac back home yesterday, very excited, and, very excitedly, opened the app store to buy Logic. Paid, cool, no problem, then I try downloading. Starts off a bit slow (8 hours for 400 something MBs) then changes to days after a minute, then changes to "less than a minute remaining" and then stops downloading. Left it over night to see if it would pick up and to my joy it did, overnight it reached 260 MBs, then left it downloading while I went to work, and it didn't move another inch. Tried downloading a free app or two and the same things would happen. Would hit the dreaded "less than a minute remaining" of death and stop downloading.
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Shouldn't be a internet problem. My windows laptop still downloads speedy as ever.

If you are referring to Logic Pro it's only a 413 MB file... shouldn't take more than several minutes to download.
Try this...
Since your are new to Macs it may be a bit confusing to find files.
Click and hold the Finder icon in the Dock (bottom of the screen on the left) then click New Finder Window.
Now from the menu bar top of your screen click Go > Go to Folder
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