[quote=Xavier Noria]
You should also be able to boot into your Lion Recovery Partition. (I think an option boot is how you get to it.)
Edit: It would be interesting to see whether you're able to boot into that partition.
Good point. I booted holding Command-R and nothing different happens. This is a mid 2009 laptop so I guess it does not know how to boot from Apple servers.
I don't have the HD clone here, but will have in a few hours today.