Last night my computer started showing a gray screen

Last night my computer started showing grey screen and a picture of the Apply logo, when I went to the OS C utilities screen it sad that part of my hard drive is bad how did that I happened I have had the computer less than 6 months. And how do I format it.

Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. Select the HDD on the left column, select 'First Aid' and engage 'Verify Disk' and 'Repair disk'. If indicated, engage 'Permissions'. See if that solves your HDD problem.
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My MacBook Pro won't start it show only gray screen (with apple logo )
And I have tried these solutions none of them worked
1/ Reset PRAM and NVRAM
2/ Restart in safe mode
3/Run Disk Utility in Single User Mode
After I tried third option it shutdown by itself
Please I need data inside the laptop , i have no backup
what should I do ?
I need some kind of solution does not contain formatting or deleting my data
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I tried comm opt p r and other commands but still not solve. Should I format and install new system from zero?

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