MacBook Air user went from 10.7.5 to 10.10, ssd hard drive gone

Command R starts internet recovery. Drive not listed in Disk Utility/obviously can't perform a reinstall. PRAM reset hangs at white screen, but at this point I think the drive is toast.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Ryan

A bit confused why you're trying to reinstall to begin with.
Are you trying to boot to the recovery partition because its not booting properly to the normal boot drive and your desktop?
Do you happen to have FileVault turned on? Someone may correct me on this, but I believe that can change how the recovery partition works. Hence the computer boots to the internet recovery, and not the internal recovery on your computer.

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