Maverick Upgrade Failed-Want my laptop back

After upgrading to mavricks, I am getting grey screen. I pressed option and chose HD. It goes back to grey screen help.

rupa83,
boot into Mavericks’ Recovery mode by holding down a Command key and the R key as your MacBook Pro starts up. When the Mac OS X Utilities menu appears, select Disk Utility. On the left-hand side of the Disk Utility window, select your internal disk’s boot partition (typically called “Macintosh HD”). On the right-hand side, press the Verify Disk button if it’s not greyed out. If it is greyed out, or if it reports that it found errors, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu to restart in normal mode. Do you still get the grey screen?

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