Install Mountain Lion failed because cannot find out harddisk.

Hi, my laptop is MacBook Air 2011 and I buy it near Dec 2011 in India. previously I installed Lion and Windows 7 in it. Today I get the Mountain Lion OS and try to install OS as totally new, so before installation I delete the windows partion. Now there is only Lion OS partion there can be seen in Disk Untility, but when I do the installation, only USB installation disk can be found.
Now I cannot boot into Lion also, please tell how to solve this case so I can install Mountain OS, thanks!

My laptop is Macbook Pro, just before the new models were released 2012
My issue is slightly different, I downloaded ML and when asked to select the drive to install ML it would identify my hard drive as a time machine back-up. Then when I go back and try a second attempt it just flat out says I can't install ML on this hard drive. What's going on?
As far as I know there is no damage, the computer is backed up.
What can I do?

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I have made a bootable USB disk of mountain lion and I tried to install mountain lion off of it. However, it has failed to install.
I went to boot it from the USB and it started installing as it should but then when it came to the second screen where it says it will take 30minutes it froze and then said that there was an error and I need to reinstall mountain lion. So I went to restart my computer and now it comes up with a error is saying "there was a problem installing "Mac OS X" try reinstalling". When I try reinstalling without my USB plugged in it comes up with the install OS x window but it does not detect my internal hard drive disk.
I do not no what to do? I tried to go utilities>restore system from backup and I plugged in my external hard drive but now it does not recognize my hard drive disk on my MacBook so I couldn't restore. Please help me! Need my MacBook to finish my assignments
I'm using a late 2008 aluminum MacBook (according to apple it's is compatible)
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
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Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Try the action that you're having trouble with again. Post any messages that appear in the Console window – the text, please, not a screenshot.
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Install Mountain Lion failed because cannot find out harddisk.

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