Problems with partitions after hard reset

Hi hope some can help here, I installed Maverick on my imac and everything seemed fine, I went to work and came home to find a black screen with nothing but the mouse cursor, however the computer wouldnt respond in any way so had to do a hard reset when the computer restarted I would get the Aplle logo and the spinning wheel then the computer would restart it kept doing this over and over.
I restared the computer went into DU tried to repair disk and kept getting errors, my drive is 3TB i have a 1TB primary Partition and a second of 2TB I tried to erase and reformat the primary partition but got an error half way through now both partitons are greyed out with no way or deleting or doing anything with them I have also noticed I no longer have the hard drive make and model in the list just Mackintoh HD and my second partition, to make matters worse my second partition is now unmounted and and when I try to mount it says it needs to be repaired but wont repair, I really need totry and get the data from the second partiton but im struggling, when I tried to reinstall os x it cant see a drive to install to nothing shows up, I even booted using diskwarrior and even it couldnt see the drive, I know this drive is ok this is a software issue the partition table seems to be corrupt or something help!!
Its worth mentioning I had Parallels and Windows 7 on the primary partiton could the windows partiton have caused an issue when I tried to erase and reformat the partition?
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