MAC OSX 10.7.5 - Desktop greyed out

MAC OSX 10.7.5 - appearing in lower right of Dock / Desktop is the following greyed out - DSC 50'''(followed by symbols) - Any idea what this referencess?o

It appears to be a mirror image of the descktop file directly above it
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Afoster88 wrote:
...Mac OS Extended' and 'name: mac OS X Base System' both greyed out along with the erase and security options (The option to erase is unavailable, so im assuming it means the mac os extended has been erased in this partition) (capacity: 1.39GB, available: 224.7 MB, used 1.17GB)
whereas in the macintosh HD partition nothing has been greyed out (so the option to erase is there, which im assuming means it hasn't been erased)
(capacity: 319.73GB, available: 319.3 GB, used 425MB).
Does this help explain the situation?
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