Start-up issues with slowness, blocked icons and disk 'whirr'

Hi
Bought a MB Pro 13" standard model about six weeks ago. This morning, for the first time start-up was incredibly slow, I had the 'beachball' (no clock or data in the top right corner) and I could not select the icons on my Desktop. The Dock appeared after a while but then none of the programmes responded and the clock/battery data etc still did not appear.
It sounded like the hard disc was also trying 'to start' or something with a low whirr.
I´m new to Mac but have searched these forums and used the Disc Utility. The programme mentioned an Invalid Volume count and couldn't be repaired.
Any help or advice regarding what to do next? I'd like to avoid losing all my files, emails from Office '11 for example...
Many thanks

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
It's also possible that your hard drive is failing. If so, you will need to replace it. If Apple replaces it under warranty, they will keep the old drive.
Try Disk Warrior and see if it fixes your problem. If it does, get an external drive and use Time Machine or Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner to create a backup, so that you won't have to worry about losing data again. All hard drives will eventually fail--that is just a reality. Having your data on 2 or more hard drives greatly decreases the chance of losing everything.
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