My Mavericks Partition Will Not Boot due to "Incorrect Number of Thread Records", But Windows 7 On Same Drive Does

I got up from my chair at the office to make myself coffee and came back to find my computer powered down. "That's weird," I said, "I don't remember turning the computer off." I pressed the power button and the loading bar appeared below he apple symbol (as it should do on a bad shutdown) but alas, when the bar got to the end, there was a loading ring, and the computer immediately shut down.
I then held down the alt key and was able to boot up in my Bootcamp Windows 7 partition (on the same hard drive) but I am unable to do a few things with my OS X Mavericks partition
First off I have the entire partition backed up, as I was able to access all of the files and the drive using my windows partition (drive appeared in "my computer" I was able to copy paste everything just fine). Secondly when I boot in the Recovery HD, the "Macintosh HD" partition appears unmounted, I can't erase it because disk utility says that the disk could not be opened. When I try to verify it, it says that the drive needs to be repaired, but when I repair it, disk utility tells me "Error: Disk utility can't repair this disk...disk, and restore your backed-up files."
tldr; I cannot erase the disk, I cannot repair the disk using disk utility in the Recovery HD, but I can see the disk in windows running on the same drive... so at least I have that going for me.
I tried starting up in verbose mode and it failed after 3 tries, I attempted to use the method described here http://african-heart.blogspot.com/2010/07/fixing-invalid-node-structure-in-mac.h tml?m=1 . I have run the method 6 times and nothing has worked. Ideally I'd like to wipe the "Macintosh HD" partition and start again, but I cannot seem to do that through disk utility
are there any methods for fixing the partition/wiping the partition that I am missing?

The same thing is happening to me. I had just click on a form submit button and suddenly the video went dizzy for an very little instant, almost couldn't see it, the screen went black and a message warning the system crash appeared. After that, the system rebooted with a progress bar under the spinning circle and it turns my Mac off when it is fulfilled.
Trying the native Apple hardware test right now to see if it can identify any problem.
I'll post any news here in at most one hour, after the test finishes.

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