Macbook Pro get grey progress bar and shuts down

Hello All,
I have a macbook pro and I faced this issue out of nowhere. After shutting down the system last time, when I started the system, I could hear the apple chime, apple logo appeared with grey progress bar below it. The bar will progress to 1/3 or so and it will disappear and after few seconds laptop will shut down. I tried few times but same things was happening again and again.
After going through few support forums, I booted by pressing D to run the Apple hardware test. It wouldn't do anything at all. Apple hardware test was stuck at pass number: 1 with elapsed time of 7 seconds. All retry were the same as the first one.
I rebooted the laptop and pressed command + R and entered in  recovery mode/recovery disk. I clicked on Disk utility and select Macintosh HDD and started disk verification. I got hundreds of errors/warning, saying Missing thread recode (id = XXXXXXX) and it suggested to repair the disk. I tried to repair the disk but after similar message, pop window appeared with message that disk cant be repaired. I exited out of it and went back to recovery menu.
I selected Reinstall OS X Mountain Lion and went through steps and at the point where I have to select my HDD, there was just one option and I couldn't select it. It gave message that This HDD is locked. I can't start in safe mode, and can't reinstall OS X
I believe this is because of my hard drive might have crashed. can anyone help?
Thank you,

It does sound like your having mechanical or other issues with your boot drive.
If your machine is under AppleCare or warranty you can take it to them.
If you can user service your machine, you can opt to try to see if a new drive will work and install it yourself, or have a local geek do it for you.

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      Processor Interconnect Speed:          4.8 GT/s
      Boot ROM Version:          MBP61.0057.B0C
      SMC Version (system):          1.58f17
      Serial Number (system):          W8020BYXAGW
      Hardware UUID:          526137DC-2D1E-5B66-9945-893D1CD1437A
      Sudden Motion Sensor:
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    Interval Since Last Panic Report:  28872457 sec
    Panics Since Last Report:          2
    Anonymous UUID:                    F1223ABE-321F-4E93-B349-9E357E66DD16
    Mon Dec  9 15:52:15 2013
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    0x5c943888 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x5c9438bc 0x223ce1 0x0)
    0x5c9438d8 : 0x9ffc9b (0xc1528c 0xc85800 0xc23e60 0x0)
    0x5c943978 : 0xb1a608 (0x9332c04 0x992f004 0x100 0xf3)
    0x5c9439c8 : 0xb11601 (0x992f004 0x100 0x5c9439f8 0x9ef778)
    0x5c9439f8 : 0x16f39a6 (0x992f004 0x100 0x438004ee 0x9787b7c)
    0x5c943b38 : 0xb392b5 (0x992f004 0x9760004 0x0 0x0)
    0x5c943b78 : 0xa08e7c (0x992f004 0x9760004 0x0 0x0)
    0x5c943c18 : 0xa0555b (0x0 0x9 0x0 0x0)
    0x5c943dc8 : 0xa0742a (0x0 0x600d600d 0x702a 0x5c943df8)
    0x5c943e98 : 0x99b582 (0xc1d00011 0xaa910001 0x20802040 0x5c943ee0)
    0x5c943ef8 : 0xd5d57d (0x934a000 0x5c943f4c 0x0 0x7)
    0x5c943f58 : 0xd5d71a (0x9382000 0xd64e54 0x5c943f78 0x2a45c9)
    0x5c943f78 : 0x230235 (0x9382000 0x0 0x5c943fc8 0x227cea)
    0x5c943fc8 : 0x2a179c (0x863ea0 0x0 0x10 0x96070e4)
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                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2.1)@0x96a000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2.1)@0x98c000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)@0x953000
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                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2.1)@0x98c000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2.1)@0x96a000
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    Mac OS version:
    10K549
    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
    System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)
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    at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch          2.2.05
    com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor          1.9.3d0 - last loaded 28286212282
    com.apple.driver.Oxford_Semi          2.6.1
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    com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient          3.5.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl          1.0.20
    com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC          1.57
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics          6.4.0
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    com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin          4.7.0a1
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    com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl          2.10.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleLPC          1.5.1
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    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage          1.6.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub          4.2.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI          4.7.3
    com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224          428.42.4
    com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet          3.0.5b8
    com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM          1.4.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager          160.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort          2.1.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI          4.2.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons          1.3.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleRTC          1.3.1
    com.apple.driver.AppleHPET          1.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS          1.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC          1.3.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC          1.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient          142.6.0
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    com.apple.security.quarantine          0
    com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall          2.1.14
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement          142.6.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport          2.1.0
    com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib          2.0.5f14
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction          17
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction          10
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction          14
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction          10
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction          10
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction          20
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController          1.0.10d0
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP          2.0.3
    com.apple.iokit.IOSurface          74.2
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager          2.4.5f3
    com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily          10.0.3
    com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily          1.8.3fc2
    com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib          1.3
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController          2.0.5f14
    com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily          2.0.5f14
    com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily          41
    com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily          4.7.0a1
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    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch          207.7
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    com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily          1.6
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    com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily          1.6.1
    com.apple.driver.XsanFilter          402.1
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    com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily          1.1
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    com.apple.driver.DiskImages          289
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