Attempting to Install Mountain Lion on Corrupted HDD, Keeps Going Back to OS X Utilities

My HDD got corrupted (still works, as it can be seen on the Disk Utility), so I'm attempting to reinstall Mountain Lion via a USB. I have the stick all set to go, following the instructions to the teeth on this websites,but, to my avail, whenever I attempt to boot from the USB I get taken back to OS X Utilities as part of the recovery thing.

That's completely normal. You have burnt the Mountain Lion installer onto a USB drive, so it's normal that you see the "OS X Utilities" window after starting from this USB drive.
As your hard disk is damaged, start from the USB drive and open Disk Utility. Then, choose "Macintosh HD" in the sidebar and repair the disk. If it can't be repaired, you can't reinstall Mountain Lion, so you need a new hard drive

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