HT4848 Is there any way to recover all datas I lost after Reinstalling the mac OS X Lion ? because I couldn't back up

Yesterday I got back home and turned on my macbook pro and it was being stuck at the grey apple booting part! I read the instruction on the Catelog that came along the Macbook and followed the instructions and opened the Mac OS X Utilities I had to erase the drive and I didnt have any clue how to back up from the Mac OS X utilities pane as I wasnt allowed to enter my user or go further that part! So I erased and repaired the drive and I am now Reinstalling my Mac OS X Lion but when I was selecting which disk would I like to reinstall I saw my disk that contains all my photos,songs,videos etc. (called Recovery HD) but when I wanted to select it they wouldn't allow me as it says " this disk is locked" on it. Is there any way to unlock and take back my data or any way to recover what I've had ?! I really need some help .. Please help!

Good that you can boot from your recovery disks and see your data and kudos for having a current backup.  You need to get the internal drive to be healthy so you can boot from it.
With your recovery disk booted use Disk Utility to examine your internal drive.  Does the S.M.A.R.T. status say "Verified" or some other status?  If it is not "Verified" stop and post back.  If it is "Verified" click on "Macintosh HD" (or an alternative name for your system drive) and do a Disk Repair.  Does it repair successfully?
Follow the instruction at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570 and see if that fixes the problem. If you get to the part about erasing and resintalling post back before you do that.

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