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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Char2802" data-source="post: 1717157" data-attributes="member: 377701">Hi all, hoping someone can help. I've sold my Mac mini, and following apples advice I've deleted everything and am running a clean install from the Internet restore option. It's a mid 2011 Mac mini 4gb ram 500gb hdd. It came with Lion. It was running El Capitan, but I googled and found I can't sell it with that OS as it is linked to my Apple ID. So I deleted everything, went to disk utitility and deleted the indented partition under the hard drive, erased it, and then ran the install option for lion.I left it a few hours (slow internet connection) and when I came back to it there was a message saying 'unable to download additional components' I clicked retry, and it was just hanging. The progress bar looked like it was at 99.999%. Checked Internet connection, even swapped to my iPhone's hotspot connection and nothing was happening. The error log said 'chunk validation failed retrying' about 1 million times. I read in another thread that deleting the hard drive, rather than just the partition can help (which I've now done) - but before I fret for another 3 hours that I've thrown £200 down the drain can anyone confirm this will work or suggest and alternative?It's happily chugging away at the moment with 2 hours 26 minutes to go. TIACharlotte</blockquote>