Mac mini cannot restore

My mac mini is version late2012 updated to 10.8.5. It cannot boot up after I install USB driver ( I nned that driver for my 4G USB Dongle). After that I restore using internet and I'm sure it complete download during restore process ( log file shows all 424 chunk downloaded) but when it restart by itself it hang like before. I did this 2 times which mean that I waste my download quota about 9G. Anyway I try other way by making USB bootable both form 10.8 and 10.8.1. I purchase Lion via App Store and restore to USB. But still cannot restore.
One step that I not yet try is to completely Erase the volume. I want to customize during restore and repair back the driver and I love my 600G data and no backup yet.
Any help?

That means the startup drive is malfunctioning.
If you want to preserve the data on the boot drive, and it's not already backed up, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data, you can skip this step.
There are several ways to back up a Mac that is not fully functional. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
1. Boot from the Recovery partition or from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup.) Launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in this support article, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.”
2. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode. Use the working Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
3. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.

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