Can't finish startup

My computer fell asleep during its last update and wouldn't wake up. So, after half an hour, I shut it off manually and I'm sure that messed with the operating system because now it will not start up.
It turns on and I get the gray screen with the apple logo. Beneath that is a series of 19 (I think) bars. The first 8 are white, the next is gray, and the final 10 are black. It freezes there, unable to continue to start up.
I've tried a Mac Pro OS install disc but maybe it's not the one that came with the computer originally (we have so many discs at work that came with our various computers). When I press C or D on startup it ignores the command and goes to the gray screen again.

#1 Never apply updates automatically without having bootable backups.
#2 Pull your system drive
#3 slap in a spare drive or recent clone
#4 hope you have Disk Warrior and SuperDuper on hand

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