Yosemite won't install. Tells me to repair my hard drive, but repair disk button is greyed out!

Ive been trying to install Yosemite for hours. It gets to the installation phase, where it says it will take 22 minutes. Nothing happens until finally there is a message that says: file system verify or repair failed and to quit the installer to restart. I've tried that a few times, but I get to the same point. I also tried to go to utilities where I tried to repair disk, but it's not available so I'm told to do verify disk first and from there I'm told to repair disk, but the button is greyed out and I have no more options and a computer that is stuck in limbo!

Disconnect all peripherals from your computer. Boot from your install disc (Tiger?) & run _*Repair Disk*_ from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select *Disk Utility.*
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click *First Aid.*
Click _*Repair Disk.*_
Restart your computer when done.
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751 and restart your computer.

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