Stuck on booting screen (loading progress bar)

My Mac stuck on the booting screen (the grey page) then shuts down, I've opened the recovery mode by holding the command+R then opened disk utilities -> verifyied my desk -> found errors -> repaired my desk -> Got red message "Disk utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible!" then i decided to create an image to store it on my external hardrive i got this message "Unable to create image input/output error"
What i have to do ? I need to back up my files and get my MAC running well !

You have already tried repair, and it did not fix enough to get your Mac working again.
Now buy two hard drives and enclosures.
One is a Large Backup drive. USB-2 enclosure will suffice, but the bigger the better. It does not have to be a notebook (2.5-in) form factor.
The Other is a candidate for a replacement for your internal drive -- but do not move it just yet.
While it is still in the external enclosure, Install Mac OS X on it and boot from it. Now you can get some work done if needed, and can use the full power of Mac OS X and additional Utilities to attempt to repair your drive and salvage your files. Mac OS X is about 400,000 of those files, so if they cannot be saved, it does not matter.
Once you have salvaged what you can and are confident that the new Boot drive works, you can swap it inside your MacBook and get portability back.

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