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I was trying to erase and install OSX because my computer was starting to get really slow. It actually froze on start up, disk utility was the only way I could get it to work. I erased everything off my "Mac HD" disk i believe that is what it was called, whatever the default was. When I reinstalled OSX it finished everything but froze as soon as it started to boot up the desktop. From there I had to go back into disk utility and check everything. It appears there is nothing on my, used to Mac HD drive, which is now renamed. Where it shows "Available space" it only shows a "-". When i try to verify and repair this disk it says that journal need be replayed, but volume is read only, or something like that. I tried resetting the PRAM already and it does nothing. I have successfully reinstalled OSX a few weeks/months ago due to similar slow computer performance, but this problem came up this time. What did I do to mess this up so badly?

caroliver,
you didn’t necessarily do anything to mess it up; hard disks are mechanical devices, and they won’t last forever.
Are you still able to boot into Recovery mode? If so, do so, then select Utilities from the menu bar, and run Terminal there. Give the following commands in the Terminal window:
diskutil list
diskutil cs list
mount
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