After downloading Yosemite Installation got stuck as the disk needs repair but is not available.

Now I can't access my Time machine and it has not backed up since 3 months. I am stuck as i don't know how to get back to my old OS and basically ignore the Yosemite download until I figure out what is wrong with my SSD. I successfully replaced the HDD several months ago with a Crucial 240GB SSD and had no issues at all while working on it. However, now I seem to be completely stuck: can't get back to 10.9, can't back up to my Time Machine, can't even erase the disk and lose 3 months of data because of some disc mounting issue. What a mess I have created. Please help.

Ok everyone,
I may have a solution. I too installed Yosemite only to be stuck with nowhere to go because I couldn't repair my disk in the Disk Utility. I would verify over and over and sometimes I could click repair and sometimes it was grayed out. I would get red messages saying you can't unmout the disk, you can't repair it, etc. So, I read on another forum some chick used her CD of snow leopard and reinstalled that OS versus trying to install Mavericks again (which I tried too, but the disk was locked because it wasn't repaired). So I popped in the CD, restarted my computer and pulled up disk utility again. The first time I ran the repair function I actually got a kernel message (which is bad) and had to restart again. The second time, however, I ran the repair and it fixed it! I got a nice green message saying the disk had no issues appeared to be ok. So, I went to reinstall snow leopard and my Macintosh disk was no longer locked because it was repaired! I just installed it and I'm waiting for my computer to reboot so cross your fingers that this works.
I feel like this is good news because it makes me think that I don't actually have a hard drive issue but rather Yosemite was corrupted. I take very good care of my iMac so it would be heartbreaking if I had to put money into it when I've never had issues with my apple products In the past. Hope this helps anyone in the struggle. I'm not smart enough to hook up external hard drives and run programs or type code into the terminal. So consider this the simple man's resolution (I'm a woman). Feel free to ask me any questions, I'll check back when I can.

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