I deleted my hard drive on my macbook pro

I am about to lose my mind if I don't find a solution. I have spent almost two weeks trying to find my hard drive on my mac.
I used bootcamp to install windows like an idiot and partitioned the hard drive, giving 80GB for windows and the rest for mac. Once I wanted that space on the mac side, I deleted almost everything for the windows side and I guess I accidentally deleted my mac hard drive. How do I know this? Well, when I tried to turn on my mac the following day, a blinking folder with a question mark kept blinking... and blinking... and blinking... I tried holding the following combinations: command-r; command-option-r; option; you get the idea. Nothing. I finally got everything working using the internet recovery mode by plugging in an ethernet cable. I got an empty 16GB USB (because when it asked where to reinstall OS X, it didn't even show the hard drive) and installed it on the little USB. It worked fine, now I have a mac again and a whole 5GB of extra space, but where in the **** is my hard drive?
I tried opening Disk Utility. No hard drive. I clicked on "About this mac" at the top right. No hard drive. I typed in the command in terminal: diskutil list. It shows:
GUID_partition_scheme; EFI; Apple_HFS Untitled 1; Apple_Boot Recovery HD. Was my hard drive shown? Nope.
I am out of ideas. I have gone through countless google searches, mac discussions, youtube videos(none of them addressed my question) and everything free that I can think of. I absolutely need help people.
I JUST WANT MY HARD DRIVE BACK! I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE DATA ON IT! I WANT THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE 500 GB OF SPACE AGAIN!
Please help me. I am about to lose my freaking mind.

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