Cannot see OS X partition in Recovery mode

Randomly my Boot Camped MacBook Pro wouldn't boot into OS X. I see the Apple logo and it stays there indeffinatly. I tried repairing in the Disk Utility in the Recovey partition and that didn't help. I took my MacBook in to the Apple store and the tech there ran some command line utilites and made sure that the HD was physically okay, and it was. He suggested I boot into the Recovery partition and reinstall Lion from there as it would retain all my programs and files. When I first did this, the OS X partition showed as locked. Now I can't even see the partition. However if I boot into windows I can see all the files so I know the partition is still there. Any ideas short of reinstalling completely?

Done that before... nope
It just isn't there as if its not installed

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