Need help! Attempting to Upgrade to Mavericks broke my MacBook Pro

I'm in need of help. I'll try to give all the info I can.
I have had this MacBook Pro for at least 4 years.
I had been running 10.5 for a long time without issue. At some point, I set up a dual boot with Windows XP. I'm not sure why I did this. It seemed like a cool idea at the time. I rarely ever used Windows... But I liked having the option. It worked very well.
Years went by. No issues. A few months ago I tried updating itunes and realized I needed 10.6 in order to do that... so I bought a Snow Leopard disk and successfully installed the upgrade.
Past few months I've been running 10.6.8 without any issues. Dual booting into Windows XP still worked. No issues.
Then today I realized that installing to 10.9 through the App Store was free. Sure why not... so I tried installing the upgrade... It downloaded, rebooted, started installing and then quit. Something about my disk being corrupted or something. It suggested i reboot my machine, back up my files and try installing again.
Unfortunately, now when I tried booting, it was giving me a grey screen with a circle and a slash through it instead of the Apple logo... and then it would immediately boot into Windows. It wouldn't boot into OSX at all.
I tried booting into safemode and it would just sit at the green screen (apple icon showing) and sit there for hours. NOthing would happen.
I tried booting via my OSX Snow Leopard disk and doing a repair disk and it's not allowing me to. Any ideas?

It doesn't really make sense for the drive to suddenly fail. I don't even think Mavericks fully began installing... it downloaded the file, rebooted and then said that the install failed.
The drive is set up with 2 partitions. One partition for Mac OSX and the other for Windows XP. I'm still able to boot into Windows XP without any issue at all. Doesn't that suggest the drive itself might be fine? I wonder if the attempt at installing Mavericks messed up some files on the MacOSX partition?
Here's what I've attempted to do...
I tried doing Shift + Cmd + V and this is the last few lines of code it gives me:
** Root file system
Executing fsck_hfs (version diskdev_cmds-491.6-3).
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Invalid extent entry
(4, 0)
** The volume could not be verified completely.
/dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 8
fsck failed!
Kext loading now disabled.
Kext unloading now disabled
Kext autounloading now disabled.
Kernal requests now disabled.
Can't get kextd port.
syncing disks... Killing all processes
continuing
I used my OSX 10.6 (snow leopard) disk to boot holding C... this allowed me to open up disk utility from the utilities menu. Within Disk Utility, I see my Mac OSX partition drive... When I click "Verify Disk" it gives me an error saying "Invalid extent entry. The volume could not be verified completely. Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk"... When I click "Repair Disk" I get an error that says:
"Verify and Repair volume "Macintosh HD"
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Invalid extent entry
The volume could not be verified completely.
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk... disk, and restore your backed-up files."
And a popup that says:
"Disk Utility stopped repairing "Macintosh HD" Disk utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files"
.... Is there anything else I can do? Again, the second partition (on the same drive) that I have called "Untitled" is home of my Windows XP partition. I'm having no trouble booting into Windows XP...
NOt sure what I can do from here. It seems the attempt to upgrade to Mavericks messed some stuff up. I am merely guessing that this is due to my drive having two partitions (one for Windows). I guess it's semi plausible that it was just a complete fluke and the drive randomly got corrupted after 5 years at the exact moment I attempted to upgrade to Mavericks, but I find that highly unlikely.

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