Stuck at startup spinning wheel screen :(

Hi, my macbook is only 4-months old and after running a bit sluggish tonight it beachballed. I shut off the computer, and upon trying to restart it, I've gotten nothing but the gray start-up screen with the spinning wheel. It is also making weird noises, it almost sounds like an electronic beat.
I have no clue what to do, does anyone have any advice or had a similar issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really hope I won't lose the contents of my hard drive :/
Thanks to any replies!

Same problem here, I am fed up withe the pile of junk. It happened (as it always does) after a recent OSX software update.
The whole thing is getting refomatted and windows or linuxinstalled. I tried to move to OSX, but nothing ever works

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