Macbook boots automatically into OS X Utilities

Recently my computer died like normal. I charged it, booted it and noticed it was stuck at the Apple logo screen frozen. So I tried putting it into safe mode, and now everytime I boot or restart my computer it goes straight into OS X Utilities. I tried partioning it and did disk maintence and both said everything was fine. How do I get to my login screen and no I do not have my information back up anywhere.

I don't know exactly, it boots up. The computer loads froma grey screen, flashes to a golden screen then goes to the OS X Utlities page. But I just went to startup disk and there's nothing there it's either taking forever to load or..

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