Macbook Pro 2011 Lion 10.7.2 HD crashed.

My hard drive crashed and I am trying to replace it. The new hard drive is physically installed. I do not have a way to get a startup disk or make a usb drive because I have no access to any other mac computers. I tried internet recovery but when I get to the point of installing OS X on my disk, the window to select a disk remains blank. I have no idea how to proceed. Please help.

My hard drive crashed and I am trying to replace it. The new hard drive is physically installed. I do not have a way to get a startup disk or make a usb drive because I have no access to any other mac computers. I tried internet recovery but when I get to the point of installing OS X on my disk, the window to select a disk remains blank. I have no idea how to proceed. Please help.

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