The was a problem installing "Mac OS X"

After formatting SSD of section MacBook Air it is not possible to install anew Lion 10.7.
Is load SD, USB c Lion from them it is not put - at once draws a gray circle crossed on the screen!
Tried with holding Command+R that that downloads, overloads, writes Installing and in 3 seconds The was a problem installing "Mac OS X"

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I am doing a fresh install from a thumb drive. The macbook find the partition and boots into the installer. about 10 seconds into progress bar this appears: "There was a problem installing mac os x" Try reinstalling.
The progress bar goes away.
The thumb drive is good... it installed on my mother's laptop just fine.
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I install mac lion but not complite if i want install again i have message there was a problem installing mac osx

i install mac lion but not complite if i want install again i have message there was a problem installing mac osx

i install mac lion but not complite if i want install again i have message there was a problem installing mac osx

There was a problem installing "Mac OS X" - Try reinstalling

Hi there,
so, i downloaded Lion and made a copy of the Install pkg to install it on multiple devices.
It worked without any problems on a new Macbook Air, an old aswell as a very old Mac Mini.
However on a 15" MBP i7 with 500GB SSD it completely messed up.
it gave the above error message
Only option was to reboot.
The system hung for 30 mins after which I shut it down.
I then proceeded to make a "clean install" Disk and Stick to reboot.
After booting I went into Diskutility and erased the Harddisk.
Funnily enough after another reboot the same error message came up.
Don'T know what to do.
currently restoring from the time capsule...

I forgot to mention a fresh mountain lion install. The M4 has latest firmware as of today.

There was a problem installing this update. Super-drive

There was a problem installing this update.
Quit all applications and re-upgrade. If the problem persists, please contact customer support from Apple.
How do I upgrade?

Thank you for the tip. The link you sent me with the optical drive is for my model? Did you installed? We could install the driver as well? If you could ever give me the link to the demonstration of the installation DVD drive was great.
Thank you very much
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Modelo:          MacBook Pro
Identificador de modelo:          MacBookPro5,1
Nome do processador:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Velocidade do processador:          2,4 GHz
Número de processadores:          1
Número total de núcleos:          2
Cache L2:          3 MB
Memória:          4 GB
Velocidade do BUS:          1,07 GHz
Versão da ROM de arranque:          MBP51.007E.B05
Versão de SMC (sistema):          1.33f8
Número de série (sistema):          W885143Q1G0
UUID do hardware:          73DE0D11-002A-508B-8352-7AF4573DB3C7
Sensor de movimento:
Região:          Activo(a)

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bdkj I emptied & trashed the caches as you suggested, still no luck.
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If you got the question mark and you do not see any partition to install OS X to, it is not good.
Close the OS X installer by pressing the red button at the top left corner of the Install OS X window, and open Disk Utility. Then, look at the left sidebar and tell me if you see your hard drive. You should see something like this:
Do not worry if you do not see Macintosh HD or if the option with an arrow shows a different name. This is normal.
If you see it, choose it, go to the Erase tab and erase the drive. Finally, close Disk Utility and reinstall OS X. You will lose everything if you do not have a backup.
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i am beside myself again...(i just visited my local Genius bar this afternoon). Any help would be most appreciated! :o)
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