Originally Posted by MiCkEy

WAIT!!! Download or find a program called "HD-Regenerator". It will boot off a CD and fix your hard-drive hardware level errors. The guy who created this program needs to be given a nobel prize. I can't tell you how many drives I have fixed this way.

Let us know of the success. This will work for the Mac lovers too as it does not care what file system you have on the drive.