I am trying to reinstall OS X Mavericks but the disc is locked.

I Am trying to reinstall os x mavericks after reading pressing alt on start up is the right thing to do. I have followed the instructions upto the point where it has asked me to select the disc. The disc is locked and only has 117mb left. Can someone advise me what to do To get everything working again?

Repartition and re-format the disk provided it has not failed. If you have a free external drive to use, then you can try cloning the drive to the external to save your data. Otherwise, it is lost:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.

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MacBook pro 13 inch,
Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63b)
91gb free space
0.68 mbps /:

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When i tried to restart my Mac earlier today, I got the gray screen. Now i'm trying to reinstall my mountain lion, but when the install guide tells me to choose a disk to reinstall on, it says that my disk is locked.
please help, urgent!
thanks.

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