MacBook 13" Stuck on Loading Screen & Start-up Issues

Yesterday, after crashing I performed a hard shutdown of my MacBook, afterwards my MacBook was stuck on the startup screen with the spinning gear. cmd+R hasn't helped as there appears to be nothing wrong with the disk 'apparently', therefor no repair can be made. When attempting to enter safe mode I found myself in a situation where the loading bar would disappear half-way through and after over an hour it would still be 'loading'. In attempting to repair my MacBook I have performed a few hard shutdownds which is likely to have made matters worse. Any help would be greatly appreciate - I'm currently boarding at school and desperately need help as I need my laptop.

Go into the recovery partition and use DIsk Utilities:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417

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