Macbook pro is not turning on. Stays on blue screen

The screen on my Macbook pro started freezing, causing me to force shut it off every time it happened. After it did that for about a day then it would not go to the home screen at all and just stay on the blue start up screen. I took it to the Apple store and they ran some tests. They say the hard drive appears to be working but now they want to erase the hard drive. Anyone know what might be wrong with it? Also, I don't have anything saved therefore I am trying to figure out the best way to save my info. from my computer. How would I go about doing that? I know nothing about computers really so please if you know anything, simplify it for me because I don't know computer language at all! Thanks in advance.
(Also I have no idea what OS it has. I bought it in 2011 if that helps any)

Thank you very much, Csound1 (Far from anything.....? I think so close...)

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