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I ran into an issue while installing. It said "An error occurred while installing OS X" and then froze. Afterwards, I got a bouncing question mark. Booting into internet recovery several times, and it couldn't find my HDD.

I finally assumed that it had probably fried my HDD somehow, so I powered off and ordered an SSD online since I was looking to upgrade anyway. I unplugged it from the wall and turned it on and it suddenly found the Mavericks installer again.

It seems to be working now.




I didn't have this problem, but removing external monitors during the install screwed up the installers view, I could tell it was still running, but not refreshing. Eventually it finished and view started working again.


Update: It did not in fact work. It turns out that my SATA cable happened to die. I replaced it myself for about $25 on Amazon.




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