I did a erase hd from start up utilities option, and now disk utilities doesnt come up at start up so i cant do a fresh install

well where to start, after hours of thought i decided it would be a good idea to format/erase my harddrive so i could do a fresh install of os x, after reading up briefly i was lead to believe the best way to do this would be through disk utilities, i restarted my mac mini what was running maverick, and got myself into the disk utilities startup menu i then proceeded to format/erase my hd and rename it, from what i can tell it was all done correctly, osx format journal option ect.. i restarted the mac and then had the utilities options open i was looking for something to suggest to boot from usb\ external source as my copy of osx is on a drive. i worked it out that i had to do another restart and use command c to boot from the drive, but when i restarted the mac all that came up was internet recovery.. i have completely lost the option to use disk utilities somehow, i have tried to do the internet recovery twice and have managed to get to the end and the computer restarts the apple logo shows and then all of a sudden i get the grey flashing folder.. i really have run out of ideas of what has gone wrong spent hours trying to find out what could of happened to disk utilities option as it isnt even a option anymore upon start up and im going to be lost without my mac if i cant get it sorted soon as i use it for music production,
thanks for any help in advance

Well you should run the internet restore, as obviously it already has erased the drive.

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