I have purchased Lion but it wont install.

It seems to be stuck on "Checking Macintosh HD"
Any ideas ?

Do you have a Boot Camp partition for Windows? If so see the following:
I saw a reference to an Apple bulletin on how to solve the problem if Lion rejects your install AND you have a BootCamp partition.
It seems the issue is that the space at the "bottom" of your available space when Lion installs it's partition is already occupied by BootCamp. The fix was to go into Disk Utility; Select your Hard Drive; Select Partition; Move the bottom of your main partition "up" a bit to create a space for Lion; close Disk Utility; Install Lion; once Lion is successfully installed, go back into Disk Partition and drag the bottom of your main partition back "down" to the bottom of the window.
In general this error arises due to a problem with the partitioning of the drive. Even if you don't have a Boot Camp partition on your drive you might give the suggested fix a try by shrinking your existing OS X partition by about 1.5 GBs to allow an empty space in which Lion can create the Recovery HD partition.

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