Mid 2010 MacBook Pro 6,2
Had 10.9.1 installed on an SSD drive which failed.
Got a replacement drive (same brand, model)
Have a USB bootable thumb drive with 10.9.0 installation files on it
Mac boots from USB and install starts
It sees the new drive (formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled)
I set the date via Terminal so that isn't the issue
Goes through the preparing to install routine, and then eventually fails with the following error:
An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this
application again.
Saw previous posts which said date was incorrect; but date has been set correctly.
I've confirmed the files exist on the USB drive.
After it fails and I go to Disk Utility, the SSD drive is suddenly not visible.
Anyone have a clue?
Best Answer
I had the same problem "an error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this applications again". When you run the installer again, instead of trying to install to the SSD, install the Mavericks OS onto the usb drive (hopefully you have a big enough usb drive to contain mac os and installer) and then reboot with the USB Mavericks OS. Computer is now running os off usb drive. Then open the installer that is also on usb and find the ssd. I had to restart once to get the ssd to show up in disk utility, but you might get lucky. Good luck hope it works for you. (my ssd OWC Mercury 240).