My 13" macbook pro isnt starting up. I goes to a grey screen and flickers between the mouse icon and then the spinning start up icon. any ideas?

I have just updated my macbook pro 13" with requested updates and asked me to restart. Upon restarting it went to the grey startup screen where it just sticks flashing betwwen shades of grey. One shade which the mouse pointer and another shade with the start up wheel?
Any suggestions would be a great help.

You may be having a hardware problem that you cannot resolve on your own. Nevertheless...
...hold down the command and R keys whilst booting to try to get to your Recovery partition. If you can, use Disk Utility to try to Verify your boot drive (usually named "Macintosh HD" unless you've renamed it). If the verification fails, try to repair your hard drive. If everything appears to be OK, restart.
If you can't get into your Recovery partition, your problem is likely hardware related. If so, keep your appointment and see what the Apple techs have to say.
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