Computer starts but doesn'tt go past progress bar

As the title says. Heres the story: the day before it broke, i was watching the simspons for several days. No internet activity whatsoever. After shutting down simpsons, computer died. Then couple days after it died, i replugged it and worked just fine. I thought i would shut it completely down to kind of refresh everything and on reboot was that creepy white screen with progress bar. Once progress bar is done it shuts off. Doesnt go past.
When i start+option key, I was able to get the disk utility. Scan says all files are ok. Then i went to re-install mavericks.
Cant re-install is says my hard drive is locked.
The guy on the phone mentioned a hard drive failure.
Im a noob with macs i dont know sh-t.
I want to know alternatives to getting a costly diagnostic+semi costly new hard drive.

I believe it is enabled. Now it says rhis when i try to repair the 500gb Toshiba thing:
"The partition map needs to he repaired because there's a problem with the EFI system partition's file system"
What is efi or a partition map?

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