After restart maverick starts in Disk utility and wants to re-install?

For many days, my computer wanted to restart, because off 10.9.3 update. Havent had the time to re-start yet, but today i was forced to because off other problems and my macbook hanging.
After restart, it did not start as normally, but starts in "choose language screen" and moves to disk utility screen after that. Here I can choose to re-install everything or to restore from time machine. I do have a week old backup, but i would rather have my system back up runni g without that.
I have tried pram and smc reset. I tried disk utility repair too. Trying to repair my hard disk (first level called 750.16gb wdc wd750...) i got an error
"Live file system repair is not supported"
Trying to repair second level (under this 750.16 and called disk0s2) i got an error saying:
"Disk utility cant repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files."
Is there something wrong with the update, my hard disk or something else?
If the last change is to restore from time machine, i could try that. But my frien just had a similar problem after changing hard disk, and that restore was not going by the book. (We could onlu restore one user).

If you were to get a copy of one of the utilities that I mentioened earlier, they come with a bootable DVD if your Mac is supported to boot from their DVD. If not, they would need to be installed on a bootable drive from a working Mac and then you would boot your Mac from that external drive.
If you just want to install OS X from a backup, you will have to format your hard drive before you can reinstall anything to it.

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drwxrwxr-t@ 16 root admin 1020 Feb 15 00:17 ./
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2008/03/13 7:25:35 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[1229] Error: (-36) copying /.SymAVQSFile to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/xxx.net/2008-03-13-192246.inProgress/70254508-90E3-4FF A-AE46-9E8210095DAE/Euphrosyne
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I'd like to keep the old snapshots if I can. What's likely to happen if I just go and clear out the b0rked backup sessions by hand?
(Hmm... it appears yes, because I just deleted them all and the disk didn't recover the freed space.)
Here's the important question: has anyone else had issues using Disk Utility on a Time Machine volume, and does anyone at Apple have any plans to add integrity checking to Time Machine? As it stands, I don't really feel like I can trust it in its present form, as convenient as it is...

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