Unplugged my imac by accident and unable to unmount volume for repair

Managed to unplugged my imac yesterday without realizing it was still on. Now when trying to repair the disk I get: unable to unmount volume for repair. I tried to reinstall OS Maverick but it goes to OS X Yosemite telling me that I need to go to the app shop (the OS X Yosemite update never worked) and can't since I am blocked in Utilites. Can you please help? I don't want to lose my files.
I have an IMac 25" 3 years old-on Maverick
Thanks

If the computer will not see the internal HD when you start in the Recovery volume then it may be damaged. Time to take it to an Apple Store or AASP tone looked at.
You can attempt to reset the SMC and PRAM and that may help, if you don't know how do the SMC 2-3 times and instructions are in Intel iMac SMC and PRAM resets

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