Hard Disk Repair Help!

Good evening,
Just wondering if you guys can give me any help with regards to my Mid 2010 Mac Mini running Mountain Lion.
I only use the computer for internet browsing and iTunes, I've upgraded the RAM to 8GB myself which was straight forward.
Yesterday I get home from work and the Mac is turned off (I usually leave it on Stand-By). Upon turning it on by the button on the back I get the Apple Logo and the rotating circle, followed by this screen;
[IMG]http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o78/Jonny2modified/6E058BF7-C5CC-4725-BB6E-64 D53168DAD8-11438-00000B443DCDE4DC_zps4a055f0a.jpg[/IMG]
If I click on Disk Utility I've got these options on the left;
[img]http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o78/Jonny2modified/B1377C74-71DB-45B0-B700-11 77B06FC73D-11438-00000B4442D9F747_zps5208f360.jpg[/img]
I've a 160GB external hard drive which has stuff on it now but could transfer that stuff over to a very old and slow laptop if I need the extra space for backing up.
Verify Disk on the top drive gives me this, which looks fine?;
[IMG]http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o78/Jonny2modified/777713AF-708F-4723-B947-2B 9337725A74-11438-00000B444825DEFF_zps957f56f9.jpg[/IMG]
But Disk Repair on the greyed out drive gives me this;
[IMG]http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o78/Jonny2modified/5A6FC9F4-79E9-44DB-ACF3-96 44F9631AEB-11438-00000B444DBBA0CE_zps46e5ea78.jpg[/IMG]
Which doesn't sound good?
The bad bit.. I've not backed up anything since I got the computer, I've got pictures/music on my computer I'd like to keep if possible.. But I don't know anything about backing things up, or how I'd go about it. Sounds pretty terminal from that pop-up message from Apple!
I've got installation disks if I need them.
So you helpful people - What do I need to do first?
Thanks in advance!
(Apologies about the bad pictures, thought it'd be better than nothing though!)

Thanks so far, Viking.
Tried to do the Shift or S key on boot up after/on the chime but nothing.
Will try a wired keyboard tomorrow, will any USB keyboard work to you know? Can borrow one from work if so..
EDIT;
I appear to have got it into Single User Mode. Tried the fsck command, this is what I got back from that;
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o78/Jonny2modified/19CDDA7A-43CF-4F3C-A4B7-22 BAA013BB53-12042-00000B863A4EDB71_zps64426d37.jpg
Still started up in Disk Utility..
If I try and install Lion again I get this;
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o78/Jonny2modified/C2691425-5AA3-43B7-B354-58 F1F9AA199B-12042-00000B863E72ED34_zpsc5118a5e.jpg
So, I guess it's dead?

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