OSX Won't Start Up

Hello,
I've upgraded my Mabcook Pro to Mac OSX Mavericks several weeks ago, it works perfectly without any issue.
Recently, I booted my mac onto OSX just fine, after I finish my work, I shut it down
The next day, I tried to boot onto OSX, and there's an apple logo, with the spinning symbol, and a progress bar, the last time I saw this was on OSX Lion, when there's an update to the os, and so I thought it was fine
After I waited for 10-15 minutes, the bar almost reached full, I waited just a little bit, and the bar dissapears, but the spinning loading symbol is still there, just a couple seconds later, My Macbook shuts down by itself, at first sight, I thought it was fine.
I turned it on again, the same thing happens
Tried again, the same thing happens, (I've done it like 7 times)
I already tried to use these methods :
    1. Booting to the recovery disk (Recovery 10.9)
    - The loading screen appears (no loading bar, just the spinning symbol), after just a while, shuts down itself
    2. Using Time Machine
    - Plugged my external HDD and boot onto it and selecting my HDD on the menu, and then it asks where to put the time machine backup, the OSX drive was not listed
    - (Still on the main menu) > Disk Utility, and saw the OSX partition is not mounted, tried to mount, asks to repair, tried to repair, failed.
    3. Safe boot
    - Pressing Shift+Command+V during startup, waited for a couple minutes, saw the line at the very bottom saying Repairing Disk, and then a check showed up, check, check, repairing disk again, left my mac for about 20-30minutes, the loop is still going
    4. Single User
    - Pressing Command+S, onto single user mode, using fsck -fy gets the same loop as in safe boot
    5. Reset the NVRAM
    - Pressing Command+Option+P+R reset it, the problem is still going
I havent tried to revert the RAM, back to 4GB using the original RAM from apple.
Additional Info :
I'm using VGEN 4GB DDR3 RAM (never had any issue)
I already have a bootcamp partition (which I'm using to write this), Running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
I already have an early Time Machine backup, all my important files are backed up
Macbook Specifications: Mabcook Pro 13" Late 2011, Intel HD 3000, 4+2GB RAM, 2 Disk Partition: Mac OSX.9, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
I really need help on this, as I don't have any other Mac in the house to do lots of things (iMovie, specifically), if anyone needs more details, just ask.
Thanks for your help.

Okay, I finally made it back,
I backed everything up before on time machine, (as I said on the original post) and I got to do it the hard way, and finally made it, With Time Machine Backup : I hope these would help.
First, turn on your Mac while pressing the Option key, this will bring up the boot menu, plug your time machine device, and select your device on the menu, it should look like an orange drive with a USB sign on it (if you're using USB drive).
After it boots, select restore from time backup, follow the instructions, the restore process might take a long time
If the old macintosh drive can't be mounted or if you can't find it when selecting the drive in the restore menu, follow my way:
After it boots, select utilities, and open Terminal
first, you need to find the main drive, type diskutil list (always press enter after yo type a command) this will list all drives connected, you should find the main disk there, my disk is named Macintosh HD, so right next to Macintosh HD there is the size of the disk, and disk identifier, the identifier should look like this (in my case) disk0s2, next, type in diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ Macintosh disk0s2 ,replace disk0s2 with your disk identifier, this might sound a little crazy, but you're erasing your macintosh drive completely, (formatting it to HFS+) after it's done, type mount disk0s2 ,again, replace disk0s2 with your disk identifier, then close the terminal, you'll go back to the menu, and now open disk utility, you should find a disk named Macintosh on the sidebar, select it, click on the erase tab, rename it to Macintosh HD (actually, it should be the name when you backed up your mac with time machine, mine's Macintosh HD all the time) and select the format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and click erase, after it's done, you can do the restore from time machine backup normally (get back to the menu, select restore from time machine backup, select your time machine drive, next, select your main drive and follow the instructions, (the restore process might take a long time)), Hope this helps to anybody facing the same trouble!
Extra, if you can't fine your time machine drive when you open "restore from time machine backup" :
Open terminal from Utilities at the menu bar on top, type diskutil list , find your time machine drive, right next to it is the size, and more to the right, there's the identifier, it looks like 'disk1s2' or so, it differs, in my case it is disk1s2, so now type in diskutil mount disk1s2 , replace the disk1s2 with your disk identifier, press enter, and now you're good to go!
If you need to repair one of your disks, type in diskutil repairvolume <yourdiskidentifier>
after you're done, shutdown, and turn on the mighty Macintosh!
Sorry for my English if it's hard to understand.

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