My mac os x wont start

I can turn on my MacBook and it goes to the gray start-up screen with the gray apple and spinning dial. It stays on this screen and then just shuts off. My battery says it has 3 out of 5 dots filled. I have a paper I need to print tonight on the Mac OSx side of my computer, which has bootcamp. Is there a way I can access this file from the windows xp side?
pleeease help, thank you so much

try using the macbook without batteries. use with the ac plug and see how it work

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Reset SMC
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
If this does not help, contact Apple.

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I had already removed the hard drive, thinking both to upgrade it to a bigger one and to see if it might have been the culprit. I had planned to put it in an external Firewire case too, after buying a bigger hard drive. BUT, when I set aside the HD and hardware that holds it in place (small bracket and screws, grommet screws for the hard drive) I seem to have misplace the little bits of hardware (duh!) So at the moment I don't have any way to put the original HD back into the computer; or at least, to hold it in place when it is installed.
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Looks like a hardware repair is in order, sorry.
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TS2570 My mac book pro wont start up

Run time corruption detected on macintosh HD

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Prevent Mac Disasters
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Fixed! In case if anyone out there is having the same problem...here's what i did to fix it.
When I uninstall firefox (manually), I also removed/currepted Java Runtime component (or files). Reason I missed it because Java still showed up in my system preferences.
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