Strange HDD error, couldn't repair.

Hi!
Yesterday turned off my Macbook normally, when today tried to start it, it started very long time - desktop and dash came up quickly as usual, but clock, airport indicator, bluetooth, battery etc didn't came up and i needed to wait about 20 minutes, and all this time i couldn't do anything.
After i started Disk Utility and checked my volume - it needed to be repaired.
But when i tried to do this, an error occured:
"Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit"
(screenshot is here http://bestpics.ru/full/Picture-1.png )
I tried to start my macbook in a target drive mode, then connected it to another Mac using FireWire, but the same error occurs while trying to repair a disk.
S.M.A.R.T.status for the HDD is OK.
I also tried to use fsck command (ater taking root's privileges, of course) but nothing doing
Please, can anyone suggest, what should I do now?

Guys! Found a solution - just booted in a single-user-mode, then fsck with -fy option. That's all!

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