My mac reboots to recovery mode...help

I have a mid 2007 imac....upgraded RAM and installed Mavericks... Everything fine here. The other day I was working on some graphics and it completely froze...nothing responded so had to perform a hard reboot. After this, started having boot problems. Got the file and questionmark logo....made safe reboot....seemed to work. Reboot number 2....still doesnt work so i decided to reboot a gain into recovery mode....performed a disk repair from disk utility and said it couldnt repair. So i wiped the HD and tried to reinstall mavericks.....stuck at 0 (zero) seconds. waited for half an hour and had to hard reboot. Now my mac automatically starts into recovery mode and does not recognize my HD when i try to selct it as boot disk.....im desperate....someone please help. Oh and a mac store ain't an option because the closest one is +3 hours away (i live in a small town)

First boot your Mac into Single User mode by holding down the Command + S till then you hear the start up chime. After that you will see a bunch of white text starts appearing. Now when the Single User boot sequence got finished, you will see the command prompt at the bottom of the screen by a hash sign(#).Just tpye the following command there : fsck -fy
After that 'File system was modified' message will appear, then again run the above command until you see another message prompting that 'the volume appears to be ok'. Then type reboot to leave Single User mode.
Secondly, the startup disk system preference is the usual method to set this. As the setting is written to NVRAM, you could also just reset that and the mac should prefer the OS over the Recovery HD. If you can't select the Mac OS X, re-run the OS X installer.

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