Flashing Icons after told reboot?

Hello. During the Lion upgrade, it told my Brother and I that there was a hard drive error and to restart and try again. We restarted the computer, and now we get a bunch of flashing icons on startup. Is there any way to continue upgrade without loss?
I have a universal drive adapter-to-usb, and my own 2007 macbook running Lion, if there is any way to recover the files. I also burned the installer DMG to a disc as a backup, and that disc passed verified testing in Disk Utility. When I try booting from that, It boots up into a screen where it says "Installing", but I don't see anything happening.
I'm unsure what to do. His macbook is no longer under warranty, and we both live in the same house, therefore I can try anything asked. We were upgrading from Snow Leopard.
All help is greatley appriciated.
Thanks!

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