Need to repair HD before installing mavericks HELP !!

Dear all,
I have a perfectly working MacBook Air, built 2012 with 256 GB.
Mountain Lion does a great job, but I want to progress to Mavericks.
As advised, I ran disk Utility system check and this came up at veryfying disk:
Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks
Invalid Volume free block count
The Volme MA_HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired
As advised I restart holding the command-R combo after which my computer starts to connect to the Internet searching for the boot-tool. then after about 30 seconds, I get a warining sign with apple.com/support - 1007F.
When I am on another network, the Internet logo keeps spinning for 20 minutes and then I get a -2007F failure.
I can not repair my disk it seems, although all is working fien.
Quickly made a Time Machine backup, but what can i do next ?
thanks for your help !!

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