My operating system has just vanished !! The laptop turns on but dose not go past the apple logo and I really need my files from my hard drive ASAP ??

My laptop had lost it's operating system,it turns on and the logo comes up with the spinning wheel And that's as far as it goes, I can not get into safety mode. I can not open my bios and I desperately need by collage files from the hard drive. Please help!!

Try booting in Safe Mode.
17" 2.2GHz i7 Quad-Core MacBook Pro  8G RAM  750G HD + OCZ Vertex 3 SSD Boot HD 

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