The first thing I would do is to stop trying to use systems other than Macs. Get a retail version of OS X 10.6 and boot from it. Use Disk Utilities to format the drives GUID so the Mac can read and write to them, Format as Apple Extended. I would also zero out the drives at this time to map out eliminate any bad block or sectors. Now install the operating system and then download and run the updates to 10.6.8. If all this works well you can now download 10.7 and update it to 10.7.5.