My Mac running Mountain Lion OS, crashed during startup , so i followed instructions as mentioned on Apple website
I chose Internet recovery option by pressing Cmd + R key. After running disk utility my macintosh HD is missing. I have no clue how to proceed here on. Attached are images from Disk Utility and Terimnal as well.Need help
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
A drive that will not tell Disk Utility BOTH its Make&Model AND a reasonable, non-Zero Size/Capacity is Dead. It cannot be repaired in its current condition.
I suggest you buy BOTH a replacement drive and an external enclosure to park it in while you re-Install Mac OS X on it. Using an external enclosure postpones issue of Installation from issues of Surgery until later, and allows you to more clearly determine and fix the problem.
If you were forced into Internet Recovery, you can only re-Install the original, "shipped-in-the-box" version of Mac OS X initially from there. Once you have the full Mac OS X running, the Mac App Store will allow you to upgrade to any Previously-"Purchased" version, or choose the currently available version (ElCapitan, at this writing). But getting only Internet recovery instead of Recovery_HD Recovery is a further indication that your internal drive is DEAD.
"Any Drive can die at Any Time."
If you did not previously hear this call, now is the time to buy an additional, much larger drive (2 to 3 times the size of what needs to be saved) as well, and start Time Machine Backups. Once begun, these backups continue unobtrusively in the background, without interrupting your work.
What model Mac?
Only the 2013 Mac Pro desktop has Internet Recovery. This is the Mac Pro desktop forum,
All Macs with Lion and later have a Recovery partition you can boot from. If there is problems with that partition and your Mac has Internet Recovery yo will boot to Internet Recovery
Internet Recovery after crash
