Macbook pro froze and now wont boot up - Help please

Hi
The issue randomly occurred when I was on Google chrome and I wanted to move an app that was downloaded in the wrong place. I went to click finder and it wouldn't open, tried system preferences it wouldn't open. It also wouldn't let me use any of the functions on the menu bar so I was pretty much stuck, however I could still use chrome. After which I closed the lid which enabled sleep mode. Just now I went to open it from sleeping and all there was, was a black screen and my mouse cursor.
I couldn't do anything, even the keyboard shortcuts and had to force shut down by holding the power button.
After which I was greeted with the following screen:
http://imgur.com/EzuzPSW
I didn't press anything and I noticed that my mac kept rebooting and kept showing that screen. Instead of leaving it I pressed a key and this came up:
http://imgur.com/l9Q1mgg
That screen would come up for roughly 3 seconds then it would reboot showing this screen again
http://imgur.com/EzuzPSW
After about 3 times of auto rebotting this screen came up:
http://imgur.com/G1G4Fj7
And now all that appears when I turn the system on is this:
http://imgur.com/EzuzPSW
When I press a key I get this
http://imgur.com/l9Q1mgg
it reboots and this keeps repeating.
Can anybody explain this issue ? I take it, its a HDD problem is there anyway I can save my data still or is it lost ?

Your MBP is suffering kernel panics.
Try SMC and PRAM resets:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
Then try a Safe Boot:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564
If no success, try to access the recovery partition:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1310
Select the recovery partition.  From the 4 option menu, select Disk Utility>First Aid and run Verify and Repair.
What are the results?
Ciao.

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