Puzzling HDD Failure

Hi everyone,
So my MBP (mid 2010, running Snow Leopard) crashed in the middle of work and doesn't start up past the grey screen (spinning wheel) anymore.
I have exhausted all the standard fixes from this list http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570 (it ONCE turned on it safe mode, but was very unresponsive and unusable, ie. only reacted to movements after long delays), then after successfully backing up my files to my iMac via Firewire, brought it to the MacStore.
There, they have run their hardware diagnostics on them (ca. 15min test), and it gave the all-clear, no problems (I was standing next to them). After that, we turned it on in the store and -voila- it started. As soon as I got back home though, same problem, nothing ever since.
I have opened it up (iFixIt instructions) and disconnected the HDD cable, then reconnected it. Nothing.
How should I proceed from here? The MacStore will say to put in a new HDD for close-to 200$, but that doesn't make sense to me since their own hardware diagnostic gave the all clear. I'm not stubborn though, if you guys think that's definately the problem, I will of course buy a new HDD and switch it (myself, seems easy enough).
Any ideas on what's going on?
Thanks so much!!
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Take your original installation disk and startup your MBP as if you were reinstalling the OS.
When you get to the point where you see a menu bar on top of the display, click on UTILITIES.
From the drop down menu select DISK UTILITY.
Run Disk Utility>First Aid, Repair Disk. See if that solves the issue or confirms that the HDD is faulty.
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graysky wrote:Any reallocated sectors in smartmontools? If you run 'e2fsck -fv /dev/sdd1' does it complete wo/ errors? Probably best to repeat for all linux partitions on that disk.
Sorry for the late reply guys. Been busy with my other hdd that decided to screw with me. e2fsck first complained about bad sectors, and wrong size. Now it says all clean. I've decided to remove this HDD from server and mark it "damaged".
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greenfish wrote:*Is SMART reliable? If it says it's alright, does that mean i'm safe? Would physical broken sectors turn up by SMART?
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