Lion upgrade fails on Mac Mini mid 2007 model

I have a mid 2007 model Mac Mini, 1.86 dual core model. When I try to install Lion I get an error failed because a recovery partition could not be created. I have freed space, with 30 gigabytes free. I have tried to clone my hard drive using Disk Utilities and an external drive with the thought of booting to the external drive and using it to clone my main drive, to perform a defrag. That process also fails. It gets 99% done and with 7 minutes left it fails to clone the main hard drive to the external.
Can anyone help me from here?

There is no problem if you take the right precautions, there are plenty of guides on youtube like this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYUjWODQ92I

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Yours facts make no sense.
A MacMini 2.1 (mid 2007) can be upgraded to either 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or 10.7 (Lion).
The latest version of iTunes is 10.7 not 7. It also works with either SL or Lion.
You would need at least 10.7 (Lion) in order to use iCloud.
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OS deleted on mac mini mid 2007

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Try this...
Startup into the Startup Manager holding the Option (Alt) key.
From there, you should be able to select the Macintosh HD and startup from it.
If not...?
Then you will need to reformat the Hard Drive using the original Install Disc set or a Snow Leopard upgrade DVD.
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FWIW..
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My Mac Mini Mid 2007 has the same specs:
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