No hard drive on MacBook air?

I am getting the Flashing ? when I try to start up.  I try the Disk Utiltiy and the disk verified and sadi it was OK.  I tied to reinstall the OS X from the internet restore,  like was suggested.  That cannot happen because it cannot fine the main partition it only find the recovery partition which has only 1.6 GB its a 128 gig HD.  There is not CD drive and I do not have one.  What else can I do??  Its a Solid state drive and I am typing from the reocover partion now so I know the disk is not dead!

Foxbox7, your info plus Ralph's sounds about right because I asked what brand of drive failed and the tech at the local store told me it was a Toshiba (FWIW, it was not an actaul Apple Store but a Premium reseller that offers all services).   I obviously couldn't check myself when Ralph first mentioned it because it was still "in the shop".  I DID check the new one as soon as I got it and sure enough it is now a Samsung.   I'm not typically one to subscribe to conspiracy theories, although that's probably a strong term for what foxbox7 is describing, but it certainly SEEMS like Apple is not being as forthcoming as they might be if the Toshiba SSD failures are not limited to the 2012 models if this is occuring frequently and especially since mine was only purchased end of April and I watched the shipping tracking from China so it was "hot off the press", not some old stock.

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