I have a Mac Air, I opened a web page and it died within a nano second, then I got the beachball for about 40 mins so I turned it off. Now I cant start it up again, I get the chime, the apple a grey screen then I get the pinwheel, it's still going, help

I have a Mac Air, and I opened a web page in Safari and it died before the page could load, then I got the spinning beach ball for about 40 minutes so I turned it off. Now When I turn it on I get the chime, a grey screen, then the apple, then the pin wheel  -its been going now for an hour.
Any help greatly appreciated

There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to fully boot. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
1. Boot into Recovery (command-R at startup; 10.7 or later), from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup; 10.7.2 or later), or from your installation disc (C key at startup; 10.6.8 or earlier.) Launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in the support article linked below, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.”
How to back up and restore your files
2. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode by holding down the key combination command-T at the startup chime. Connect the two Macs with a FireWire or Thunderbolt cable. The internal drive of the machine running in target mode will mount as an external drive on the other machine. Copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
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3. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.

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