S.m.a.r.t. status failing, HD won't mount, verify, or repair. Can't make disk image. Any other options?

My iMac won't boot up. It gets to the grey screen with the progress bar. Gets about a third through the progress bar, then shuts off.
I boot up with the recovery disk. The S.M.A.R.T. status is "failing." Disk Utility shows the following message:
"The disk has a hardware problem that can't be repaired. Back up as much data as possible and replace the disk. See and Authorized Apple dealer for more information."
I have tried:
• In disk utility the HD can't be verified or repaired
• Making a disk image from disk utility. I got a message "input/output error"
• Using my MacBookPro laptop to boot up the iMac in target disk mode. The iMac wouldn't mount.
I backed up up a few months ago, so I'm not totally out of luck. But there's a few recent projects I'd like to salvage.
This is a 21.5" iMac with 3.33 ghz, 2x2 gb, 1000gb running the latest Yosemite OS
Any further things I should try before carting the iMac to Tekserve? Thanks everybody.

I'm afraid from your description it sounds as if the disk is seriously damaged in some way. I don't think there is anything more you can do, short of taking it to a specialist recovery service which would be extremely expensive.
Your service engineer will take the disk out and replace it with a new one; ask to keep the original disk. You could try putting it in an enclosure (more expense) and seeing whether anything will access it, but I have to say that given what you've already done it's extremely unlikely you will have any sucess.

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