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2+ hours into the download/install, I get an error that says "OS X couldn't be installed because the disk Macintosh HD is damaged and can't be repaired."
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I then booted back into recovery and had recovery download and install a fresh version of 10.8.2. I booted into OS X and tried again to repair, thinking it would work since the Fusion was no longer the boot drive. So I downloaded 10.8.2 on my Mac Mini and made a boot disk out of my Thunderbolt drive. It couldn't repair the drive, even though it had me erase all the data. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility." Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. That gave me an error "Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. I went back and tried again and I got an error stating that the drive had errors and I couldn't make a new partition. Finally, I realized that the Disk Utility was locked up. I noticed that it was taking an inordinately long time to create this partition. I recently decided to add a new partition to the Macintosh HD in order to put Windows on it. I was using about 800GB of my 1.12TB Fusion Drive.
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When I first plugged in my Time Machine drive, I was asked if I'd like to transfer my files over. I recently picked up a late 2012 iMac with the 1TB Fusion drive.
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I have a late 2009 iMac that has been backed up with Time Machine. It's also a copy/paste from the Apple Support forums which hasn't had any response. It's a long post, but I feel everything is pertinant. First off, I hope this is in the correct place on the forum.