Save files without accessing desktop

Hi
So I have an iMac i think from early 2009 it came with snow leopard it has 4gb ram and 500gb hard drive. Currently it has Mavericks and today I tried to turn it on and a white progress bar appeared under the apple logo, the bar filled gray until just right before the end and then my iMac turned off, this happened twice. I looked up about it and apparently my disk might be defective or something, I tried to repair it with disk utility but it said that disk utility can't repair it and that i have to make a backup, format the disk and restore the copy, I don't have time machine and even thought my external drive is 2tb I don't know how much is free just that is less than 1TB. Also i read that i should try and erase the drive and reinstall OS X but that before that i should save everything I needed and there are some files that I really really need and maybe if I could check all the apps I have, so I can write them down, that'd be great too but it's not that important as saving the files. So, is there a way to do that or the backup? I thought maybe reinstalling mavericks without erasing, saving the files I need and then erasing everything and reinstalling the OS. But i don't know if that is gonna work and i rather not waste time on something that definitely won't work.
Please help and thanks.

Reboot to the Recovery Partition, use Disk Utility to create a new partition on the external hard drive formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Option GUID. Then install the OS on the new partition. Restart holding down the option/alt key, select the external, and boot from it. Use a clone to back up your files. Then use Disk Utility to erase the internal hard drive. Boot back into the Recovery Partition and install the OS on the internal. Then recovery your files by mounting the clone on the internal and selectively restoring your files.
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