My OS was suddenly deleted and I cannot reinstall it

Hi guys, my macbook recently stopped working. Every time I switch it on without pressing any buttons it shows a question mark on a folder. I know that means that the Mac does not read an OS, thus the question mark. I tried to erase all the files, but it always took a lot of time but never really got erased, so when I restarted the macbook pro again, the disk was gone from the utilities disk (I booted it with cmd+r) so I decided to try reinstalling the OS X mountain lion but it says It cannot write the files on my Mac. Please help

Sounds like your disk drive died. Take it to Apple and ask them to check it out for you.

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