Can I get my personal files off of macbook pro not booting?!

So my MacBook Pro June 2012 has pretty much died in a sense. I was using it today and kept getting error messages and my apps kept quitting for no reason. So naturally I restarted my computer...well now it won't start up. I get to the Apple logo and a bar comes up underneath it. The bar fills about an eighth of the way before it shuts down. I tried running disk utility to repair it but that didn't work. Then I tried running it in safe mode and that didn't work. I also have come to the attention that Disk Warrior doesn't work on this particular model of MacBook. Now when I go to disk utility I can clearly see that there is space taken up on the hard drive and I can get to the directories with all my personal files, but I cannot access them. My question here is how can I get these files onto an external hard drive before I have to wipe the thing clean. These files are very important to me so I need to exhaust every option before abandoning ship. They have to still be there if I can see them right?

damage data? NO
just
A: dont squeeze top to bottom the HD....
B: try not to touch the green circuit board on the HD
C; dont shake or drop (eeek) the HD.
Very easy to do.
Get a GOOD HD enclosure, junky ones are more common than snowflakes in January
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Anker-2-5-Inch-USB-3-0-eSATA-to-SATA-Hard-Drive-Disk-HDD -External-Enclosure-/321085534744?pt=US_Drive_Enclosures_Docks&hash=item4ac23072 18
See this on HOW to install it, takes 10 seconds, easier than falling down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLNv8RMzfjo

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503-806-6423"
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