Fail to install Lion

Hi.
After purchaising Lion on the app store, the install starts (showing 36 min to go), but stops after a minute. The system tells me that the disk is damaged amd that a repair is needed.
I do a rapair via the disk utility, but it doesn't help (problem with the node structure). I also tried to repair from the install disk of mac os x 10.6.8, didn't work.
Any ideas?

I tried the lion recovery (CMD-R), but then it starts the windows recovery program (DOS). Win 7 is installed via bootcamp.
Grrrr....

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