BootCamp nor' Disk Utility will Partition my Drive.

Alright, So Im back again, And this time I have a totally different topic.
Today I tried to Partition my drive to add another OS, to be specific, Windows 7 (Don't hate me! :P)
The first step I took was using BootCamp SINCE, It is for windows installation on Mac OS X.
WELL, I tried partition and BootCamp wouldn't let me, The Boot Camp Assistant will usually get stuck at the "Partitioning Disk..." stage, Or sometime it will say. "Partitioning Disk..." for about 5 minutes then a warning message will pop up saying, "Verification failed. This disk could not be partitioned. Use disk utility to repair this disk."
I hit okay, then go to Disk Utility, And try to partition my disk from there, I will select how big of a partition I want leaving about 6 gigs on my main partition. I hit "Apply" and then it starts to partition, but the only thing it does is, "Modifying the partition map" for about 5 minutes and then I get a warning message saying, "Partition failed. Partition failed with the error: Filesystem verify or repair failed." Im not really sure what this means, but after this, I try to Verify and Repair my disk. It does the "Verifying" stage for about 8 minutes and then tells me "First Aid Failed. Disk Utility stopped verifying "Macintosh HD" because the following error was encountered: Filesystem verify or repair failed." In the "Details" box, this is what it says,
"Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 410899 instead of 410900)
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 117223 instead of 117222)
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed."
Can someone please help me out here, All I want to do is make one stinkin partition for Windows 7! Whats going on here?!

If you are going to repair a startup volume then you must do this:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger, and 4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Your error suggests some major defect with the hard drive. If it cannot be repaired you will have to re-partition the drive. This will erase everything on the drive, so be sure to backup first.
Also, you cannot install Windows on a partition your create with Disk Utility. You must use Boot Camp Assistant on a drive with a single partition/volume using GUID partition map and formatted Mac OS Extended, Journaled.

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