No drives show in disk utility. holding option only shows internet recovery

Alright. I had windows 7 running in bootcamp on a 13 inch macbook pro 2011 june/july model and everything was running fine untill i closed the lid. When i closed the lid down after about 2-3 minutes the laptop restarted.. upon hearing this sound i opened the lid back up to find a white screen and after awhile a flashing folder like icon with a big question mark started flashing. So i rebooted thr laptop and held down option key. When the select network came up there were no drives listed above it.. after a minute or two internet recovery came up. So i ran this.it then went back to the select language for installing lion again. After navigating through the menus it came to select drive but the list was empty. When i checked disk utility ither it frozenor listed like two main cataagorys and two subs. I need some help. Anyone know whats wrong? Will update with more information needed. Note: i do not have the disks that came with the macbook pro i bought it used from a pawnshop around january. Has run perfect untill today

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