HT1529 I turned on my macbook and it says it needs to recover the disk

I turned on the macbookpro and it says it needs to recover the disk but there is no disk to recover from. How do I repair the disk?

Restart while holding both the Command and R keys, that will start from the recovery hard drive...then go to Utilities and Disk Utility and Repair hard drive.  See if that is what it wants you to do.

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