I'm rebooting into my bootcamp partition (windows) and i can't finish to install lion.

Hi, i'm andrea writing from italy
i have a serious problem with my mac.
i have started to install lion on my 27 ssd imac. I have a windows partition on that.
during installation the system said to restart. then the computer started on windows.
i have restarted again with option key pressed. then i have seen 2 different harddrive icon on the screen (windows) and lion installation
pressing lion then the screen became gray with a denied signal on it. and start again windows.
please help me!!!
Andrea

Phoenix,
Like the others mentioned you need the 10.6.8 version to do an upgrade over your existing OS.
Have you tried a clean install after backing up your data and erasing your HDD? I'm assuming your hardware qualifies. If your USB stick is bootable you could do a clean install with it. Or if you have the InstallESD.dmg file, burn it to DVD and perform a clean install.

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