Installing ML and corrupted disk help

So I was trying to install mountain lion and when I selected my macintosh hdd to install it to it said that it couldn't be installed there because it couldn't boot my h (or something like that) So I went into disk utility (by hitting the back button and choosing my language and then selecting disk utility) and verified my hdd it said it needed to repaired but the repair button was shaded out. When I moused over it it said that I couldn't be repaired because the disk could not be written to! Thanks in advance for the help. (also I was using a 13' MacBook pro 2011 if that helps)

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Clinton

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I've had my iMac for about a year and a half. We had lost our internet and were using a hotspot for awhile so we could look for another provider and get online if we needed to. One day I signed on and, we didn't have an isp mind you, but the browser opened up to the dominant isp in this area saying a virus was detected coming from this iMac address? I thought that was strange and panicked so decided to do what I would on a pc, just restore the whole thing to factory settings. Everything was going smooth, (my updates were at 10.6.8 at the time)... when I restored I was back at 10.6.2. (osx disk) I was doing systems updates and one apparently hung.... when told to restart, I did... but the computer would never boot back up. It would turn on.... go to gray screen... then blue screen... then shut off. I couldn't boot in safe mode, pram reset did nothing, smc reset did nothing, couldn't hold 'd' to get to diagnostics, couldn't boot to recovery... it kept spitting out disks after trying to read them... with all those solutions I found online and nothing helping I had to call Apple... they couldn't help over the phone because Apple Care expired, unless I purchased help... this frustrated me because every where I found my problem and a different solution their Apple Care had expired too.... so had to set an appt at an Apple store.
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