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Hit the Apply button and Disk Utility will create bootable USB flash disk.

Click the Options button and select GUID Partition Table to create bootable USB flash disk and click on the OK button.

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Select Partition tab and set Partition Layout option to 1 Partition and Partition format set to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).Plug your USB flash disk to USB port and select it in the Disk Utility white left sidebar.Drag the InstallESD.dmg file and drop it to the left white sidebar in Disk Utility.Start the Disk Utility application (Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility).Go to the Contents/ShareSupport directory in which you can find the InstallESD.dmg file.

Click the right mouse button on the Lion installer and select the Show Package ContentsВ option.

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In the Applications directory, App Store will create application called Install Mac OS X Lion.

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App Store will offer you Lion installation to download again. If you want to re-download Lion installation application, open the App Store, hold the Option (Alt) key and click on Purchased button. After the download is finished, close the automatically opened installation window for the Lion update.

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Download the Mac OS X Lion update from the Apple App Store.

DVD or USB Lion installation is useful if hard drive partitions in your Mac crashed or after installation of a new hard drive to your Mac, because Lion Recovery utility will be unavailable. To run Lion Recovery press and hold Command + R keys during startup. Lion Recovery can restore Lion to default settings, like after clean installation. Mac OS X Lion has integrated recovery utility called Lion Recovery. Disk Utility that is used to create the USB Lion installation, will format the USB flash disk and all data saved on it will be deleted. The USB flash disk must have more than 5 GB of free capacity. Mac OS X Lion USB flash disk installation must be created before you update your Mac, because after update process, the system will delete the installationВ application. At least to just get me out of this installer boot mode.How to create bootable installation flash disk of Mac OS X Lion

How can I even back up my files when I can't even access them because of this installer boot mode! Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files. Click Repair Disk.Дisk Utility canвЂ™t repair this disk. The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely.Д®rror: This disk needs to be repaired. Hard link record has data extents (id = 2888169) Some further info to put on the table - here's what I get after I run disk utility and this includes when the snow leopard disk is at hand:Д¬hecking file systemPerforming live verification. I'll be able to repair the disk and worst case scenario at least just back up my files before i start again. At this point I'd rather just backpedal from this installer more than anything else. It cant and that it 'could not gather enough information'. 'Startup Disk could not gather enough information on selected disk' If I go to 'Startup Disk' from the apple menu and choose 'Macintosh HD' it will tell me it can't do it because: I want to go back to the way things were and just leave the installer boot but it wont let me. The logged data will be useful in any report to Apple. More useful: the directory may contain the log(s) of one or both of the two stages of installation: dmg, resist the temptation to use any such.

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If you find a software distribution there, maybe as a. Looking ahead, after your normal Snow Leopard startup volume is verified вЂ¦ДЄt your leisure, and before your next attempt to use the installer for Lion, check the target volume for the presence of the following directory, at the root of the volume: The surer approach, if you see your normal startup volume, will be to start instead from your Snow Leopard DVD and use its Utilties menu to run the older version of Disk Utility. (Without getting too technical: for a system started in a certain way, certain errors might be negligible.) We might find that the volume issues most recently described by Recovery OS Disk Utility are transient. If (4) is true then you might simply carry on using Snow Leopard pending further investigation of what went wrong with the attempt to install.

at the startup disk prompt, we hope to see your normal startup volume.

quit from Recovery OS Mac OS X Utilities.

Mac os x startup disk installation fail message