Stuck in grey loading screen

I've got a booting problem with a mid 2009 MacBook Pro running Mavericks. Everything was running fine this evening until I opened FaceTime. Everything became unresponsive for about 10 minutes, so I powered it down and turned it back on again, but did not advance past the grey screen with the Apple logo and the gear turning below. After checking online, I've tried the following:
-Reset the NVRAM (no results)
-fsck -fy command in single user mode (I get "FILE SYSTEM SEEMS TO BE OK")
-Recovery mode (doesn't work... I get the same stuck grey screen.)
-Safe boot (doesn't work... same thing.)
I've tried booting it in verbose mode twice. The first time I repeatedly got "error reading fs block" and the second time I repeatedly got "disk0s2 I/O error" and "error truncating data fork"
Another incident which may be a clue: last night my computer, which was charging, suddenly turned off and the charging light went off. It booted back up again fine, but ever since my charger hasn't worked, even with other computers. I have another charger that has been working fine though.
I know that this sounds like a hard drive failure and I will probably need a new one, but I am hoping there is a way to log on and be able to recover some data that hasn't been backed up. Any ideas?

Quick update: I can now boot to recovery mode, but nothing else (regular booting procedure takes me to recovery mode.) Disk utility says that the drive cannot be repaired, and I can't reinstall OS X because it says I am not connected to the internet (even though it's connected to my network where other devices are working fine. I've tried Ethernet too.) a When I go to "choose startup disk" no options appear.
So now that I can access recovery mode, is it possible to make a backup to an external hard drive, even if my internal hard drive is corrupted?

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