My macbook pro will not load. The screen stays stuck at the apple loading signal.

I tried booting it up in safe mode, but a loading bar appears on the bottom, starts to fill, and dissapears again, leaving just the apple and the spinner.

What backups do you have?

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None of that made sense to me or helped me. Anyone else? Maybe someone who has answers dor someone not a computer genius?
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