Stuck on grey screen and can't back up my HD

Im on Macbook Pro, Mountain Lion. I've been stuck at the grey loading screen, making every attempt to backup my HD. I have an external HD im trying to copy everything over to but everytime I try to create New Image, it gives me the permission error -61. Sometimes when I repair the Disk it tells me "Macintosh HD appears to be OK." Then the next time I run it, it tells me "Error: Disk Utlitly can't repair this disk. Back up as many files...." I have also repaired permissions and it repairs a few, but still does not allow me to copy my files over. I had no Time Machine backups. Is there anything else I should be doing, or have I lost all my files?

.Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive

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