Wanted to restore macbook but cannot reinstall mac osx lion, any help?

tried to reinstall mac os x lion after buying a 2009 macbook air from someone. just wanted to reset the machine to factory settings, but everytime i try the screen says it is temporarily unavailable. anyway to help this problem?

Hi tonysaez,
I apologize, I'm a bit unclear exactly when or in what context you are seeing the "temporarily unavailable" message. If you are having issues restoring your Mac to factory settings, you may find the steps outlined in the following articles helpful:
OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
OS X: How to erase and install - Apple Support
What to do before selling or giving away your Mac - Apple Support
Regards,
- Brenden

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Given that your answer to 1. is 'pre-installed' and 3. is 'No', I think the only thing to do is to take it to an Apple store (ideally the one you bought it from) and have them reinstall it for you.
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A reinstall should leave all your own personal data and programs in place.
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TS3926 Unable to reinstall Mac OSX Lion after internet recovery

Sequence of Events on My Macbook Air
1. I saw a flashing question mark in the morning on starting my macbook air
2. I then tried the internet recovery of my Macbook air
3. The system took me to a recovery partition where my only option was reinstall the OSX lion
4. I tried following the system till the Mac OSX lion disk selection
5. I do not see any disk to select and hence cannot proceed.
Any pointers? Is my hard disk gone for good?
Please advice Urgent!!!!

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Cannot perform Mac OSX recovery need help

Morning forum
I am hoping that I can find the help to my issue here as I need this machine up for business. I m having trouble reinstalling the OS as it is stating that it cannot find the system folder (folder with ?). I have tried to perform recovery installation holding down command R and also the other option of holding X down whilst boot up but it seems the keyboard shortcuts are not working or is there a more serious problem. I tied the RAID sets yesterday and all came back all drives seem to be ok. I am baffled as to what I can do. Any help is always appreciated.
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My MacBook pro late 2011 i7 8GB 750GB MAC OSX Lion (up to date) 1 week old freezes on wake up.
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No apps running.
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Dear TheSmokeMonster, Dear all MacBook pro 13'' late 2011 users,
Here is the update.
As TheSmokeMonster mentionned (above) they asked me to reinstall MAC OSX Lion by shutting down the computer and holding cmd + R while switching it off. Then you choose the language and you are good to go for a looooonngg 4GB download (it took me 8hours yeah chinese ADSL :-/ )
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