Can't erase or paritition primary internal HD: "wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed"

Yesterday my computer (mid-2010 macbook pro) froze and after doing a hard reset my computer would hang during the bootup process.
I then started the machine in recovery mode and tried to do a Repair Disk using the Disk Utility.
The Repair Disk failed an indicated that the partition needed to be erased and recreated.
Why I tried to erase and recreate the paritition, I got the error message: "wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed"
I am unable to create a new partition on my internal hd using Disk Utility. I keep on getting the error same message. I've already tried the fixes mentioned in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4490281?start=0&tstart=0
I've tried creating the partition using Parted Magic but that fails as well
When I start the machine now in recovery mode, it goes to internet recovery.
I would suspect that this is a hd failure, but there are a couple of things that seem to indicate otherwise:
The Lion recovery parition is still visible in Disk Utility, and when I run a Verify Disk on it, everything is ok
Using Parted Magic, I've run a complete HD self test, and there are no errors reported
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi there!
Sounds like i have similar problem but with my MacBook Pro 13' (9.2, mid 2012)
I have made some updates 500GB SSD Intel 520, and original kit of 500GB Toshiba 5400 (with Opticbay)
It is time to change kit Toshiba to larges one. My choise is Hitachi 7K1000 Travelstar 7200 rpm for 1TB (SATA III).
I try to set up new HDD to Opticbay, when using Disk Utility there is Error
"wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed"
When i change it to original place for HDD - everything fine, but if SSD on Opticbay - MacBook does not see it.
I have read a lot of forums about this problem, and there some issues how to fix it - need to install updates for EFI Frimeware manualy, but suddenly it is impossible - when i try to install update there is Alert -
Actualy i realy need to help with that! Maybe some one?

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