Disk Managment cannot recover Macintosh HD in recovery mode

Hi,
Today I used my iMac in Bootcamp and after I was done I tried to restart in Mountain Lion. But it didn't go as expected.
Instead of the normal loading animation I was shown a loading bar that slowly filled. After the loading bar was full I got the normal loading
animation, but it kept going for hours without anything happening.
I decided to turn my iMac off and check the disk in recovery mode. After checking it with disk mamagment it showed some problems and recommended me to recover/repair the disk. That's the point where it goes wrong ,because it can't recover/repair the disk after trying multiple times.
So is there anyone familiair with this problem and if so do you know how to counter it?

Your best bet is DiskWarrior, you need the CD/DVD though.
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
But others that may work…
Drive Genius…
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius.php
TechTool Pro…
http://www.micromat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=83

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