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Repair or recover drive from Mac OSX recovery mode

My computer won't start up past the login screen so first i tried Safe Mode [Shift+Start up] didn't work . Then I tried to reinstall software [Command+R+Start Up] my apple logo turned into a circle with a line through it and the gear never stopped spinning [about half hour later] so I turned it off. I then tried to reset the NVRAM [Command+Option+P+R] and I got to a screen that said "Mac OS X Utilities" from there I went to Disk Utility and saw that my disk had S.M.A.R.T. errors. I clicked "Repair Disk" and it found the problem and fixed it apparently. However, when I tried to reinstall Lion I got this image

enter image description here So I have a few questions:

If my disk is corrupted, why did it say the repair worked ? If my disk is corrupted, how can I back up the files if I can't login ? Is it possible to repair the S.M.A.R.T. errors ? I want to AT THE VERY LEAST back up my photos and a few documents, is there any way I can put those files onto a USB through Disk Utility ?

Thanks in advance

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  • You "backup" your files _before_ this happens. You try to "recover" them _after_ the fact. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Dec 28 '12 at 22:27
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    possible duplicate of [Repair or recover drive from Mac OSX recovery mode](http://superuser.com/questions/486048/repair-or-recover-drive-from-mac-osx-recovery-mode) also see [Recover hard disk data?](http://superuser.com/questions/87188/recover-harddrive-data) also [How to recover data from a hard drive crash?](http://superuser.com/questions/329403/how-to-recover-data-from-a-hard-drive-crash) and a few others. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Dec 28 '12 at 22:29

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