IMac not getting very far into boot sequence.

Hi,
I can no longer get OSX to boot up much further than after initial screen where it makes the noise, and has the spinning icon, after that if moves to a blue screen, light blue, occasionaly the hard drive will make a noise as if it's accessing it, but that's all.
Before this happened, I was looking at some files on an external hard drive, to try and get rid of them, they were both over a gig in size, that slowed the iMac down.
I eventually managed to force quit a some applications down so that restart, and the above mentioned is the result.
Any ideas?

I was trying to avoid it as well, but if it gets it back up and running, till I have some free time, to back up stuff on the drive,... yess i do use time machine.. but there's other stuff on there I want another back up on it's own.
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