Early 2010MBP won't start from HD, Restore partition or CD (but Target sees CD)

Hi,
So my MBP threw a wobbler last night. Started acting slow as ***, and the HD started being a little more vocal than usual.. I thought i'd repair permissions, run some 3rd party first aid and see if i could back it up. It's not the first time its happened and that process seemed to work. (With hindsight, I should have replaced the HD at that time)
Anyway, it was running so slowly that it took about 10 mins to open up the utility folder in order to load disk utilty and even then the icons were all just the generic "app" ones. It wouldnt load disk utility and decided to "beachball" instead. So i waited for that to finish and shut it down.
Upon restarting, the chime sounded as usual, then again, (this time with what sounded cracked in the middle), then again, then again etc etc
I turned it off at the power button, and tried again, this time it only chimed once and got as far as the usual grey screen with the dark grey apple followed by the spinning icon below.. And here it has hun ever since.
After an hour of hopefulness, i gave up and turn it off at the power, inserted my restore disk and figured i'd try disk utility this way instead (as usual)
It does EXACTLY the same when trying to boot from CD except the moving icon freezes after a while
repeated attempts at booting from CD. - no joy until the last occasion i got the infamous black screen of multiple languages!!!
Zapped PRAM and SMC
Still no joy
Tried to start to Target Disk - afer several attempts, the Fire Icon eventually displayed.. Connected to other mac, and it will see the CD but not the internal HD.
I flicked through some readme files on the cd (over fw target mode) in an attempt to test reliability of my cd optical drive and it's fast and as expected.
Disk utility over FW target mode also only shows CD - not HD
Restarted with CD by holding option key, it shows the CD, no HD, No restore volume.
selected CD and press enter, grey screen, grey apple, grey spinning icon...
hangs
here we are again
any ideas???

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You might, try starting in single user mode. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492
At the prompt type fsck -fy remember to leave a blank space before the "-fy". This will run a file system check, like Repair Disk and repair any problems if it can. If you run into errors run fsck multiple times until it reports OK. Then, type reboot to restart to OS X.

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