Lion has been installing for almost 3 days...HELP.. This in junk

Can someone help me also. I have been downloading lion for two days not and it will not stop.  I get the blue bar on the bottom and it says installing. I turn the computer on and off and it comes back and still says installing. Also I cannot get to any icons or anything else. I did control R on start up and then it says error during instal. Then it goes back to saying installing with the blue bar. How in the **** can abort this crap and install SL back on the computer?
Thanks
I MAC
2TB
16gb

diclad wrote:
I tried that, SL will not install. When I hold down the C button the only thing that comes is the OX and Windows and R HD. When I tap on the recocery HD what should I do then? Where is this recovery section at?
Thanks
It sounds like it is installed? Try clicking on the OSX!
The Recovery HD will download a copy of the installer and install it automatically. It will take a long time for the downloading. You should then have 10.7.2.
By the way it also includes a Disk Utility to check out and repair the disk first...
I would recommend doing this because as things are, you are likely to lose your data, trying to get back to SL. Anyway millions of people are using Lion and enjoying it, so don't be put off.
If you really want to go back to 10.6.0 then you'll need to boot from an external and run Disk Utility to remove the partioning, then do an erase / install. You will need to get your data off the computer first, including Bootcamp if that's what you mean by "Windows". Is it readable just now?

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