My Mac will not open

Went to re open my Mac and the Apple and the spinning wheel came up and just kept going-and going and going!!! I have tried the "help" advice ie "shift option and start". Nothing. I can get into Safari's help section. Which will bring up some pages but keeps asking for key chain password, which I do not have. I have tried everything and just cannot log into my normal programmes. Grey screen background, no dock or anyway of trying to get anything else up on screen. Help please??!!!

I'd shut down and reboot into the recovery partition and see if you can repair your hard drive.
1. I hope you have a backup. This may be your hard drive saying it's about to die.
2. If you can't shut down normally, press and hold the power button until the computer shuts off.
3. Restart and hold down command R until the Apple icon appears
4. You should see a menu bar and a Mac OS X Utilities Window.
5. Use disk utility to repair your startup partition on your Hard drive.
Why don't you try that and then report back.

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