Mac can't find startup disk (folder with question mark)
Hello, yesterday I put my MBA to sleep and this morning, opened it to find a folder with a question mark, not booting up. Naturally, I did some research abd came to the conclusion that it wasn't able to find a startup drive.
If i booted while holding Alt/Option, it comes up with Internet Recovery. When I finish setting that up, it brings me to the usual window with 4 options: Backup from time machine, search Safari for support (it actually works on every site so I can still browse the net, ***.), clean install of Lion (although Im running mountain lion) and Disk utility. When I open up DU, there are 3 elements;
-122 GB SSD. (not sure on th size dont have my mac with me)
-disk 1
-Mac OSX base system (below disk 1)
All optiond are greyed out. I have no volumes under my SSD.
I can acess startup manager but there are no volumes i can boot from (blank box)
I can't understand how all my files just vanished, including the whole OS, from the SSD. But the drive itself isnt dead since it show up in disk utility, right?
I tried everything; booting in single user, booting in safe mode (both didnt work, just left me at original s reen), resetting PRAM and using trrminal (accessible from internet recovery) to check my drive.
I didn't really have any really valuable files but it will be a pain in the *** to redownload everything i had if i need to do a clean install (i have no backup... dumb me) anyone have any ideas what the problem is?
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)