HT4718 How I force recovery to go to Internet recovery as the local doesnt let me reinstall lion

My computer restarts in recovery mode but doesn't allow me to erase my drive or reinstall lion.
I don't even see my hd anymore.
How do I force the Internet recovery and how do I for e rescan to see my drive again.

What year was your Mac made? If it was before 2010 there is NO internet recovery system for those older Macs.
And even if it is a 2010 model it has to have the latest firmware installed to use the Internet Recovery system.
What you have to do on older Macs is use the original install disc that came with your system or a Snow Leopard Retail disc to boot the system and nwipe the drive.
Then reinstall one of those versions of OS X, Update to 10.6.3 (Retail version of Snow Leopard) then Update that to 10.6.8 from software update then you can reinstall Lion.
But it sound like you have hard drive problems and if your system is older then a 2010 model more then likely the hard drive is failing and needs to be replaced.
Next time you get to install Lion create either a Lion Recovery USB stick, useing the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant program downloaded from Apple or use the Lion download, Before you install it, to create a Lion Install USB thumb drive.

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