Satellite U400-112: can't format local disk (damaged MFT?)

Hello!
I got rather serious problem with my HDD.
HDD 250Gb
C: 116Gb - NTFS - Windows XP (Vista initially)
D: 1,5Gb - NTFS - (Vista Recover?..)
E: 117Gb - RAW (was NTFS before crash)
MFT of local drive E: was damage because of the virus attack (I hope not because of my foolishness!). It was NTFS, now it is RAW. I recovered all necessary data from lost partition with program ZAR, but all my attempts to recover or just format E: remained unsuccessful.
No bad sectors found on HDD. Windows standard tool for formatting disks fails: "It is impossible to finish formatting of E:".
Before this problem with drive E:, I got several difficulties with HDD. I have never re-divided disks, as from the very beginning Partition Magic identified it incorrectly. I tried Partition Magic 7 and 8.
Link: [ Error screensaver|http://cs1498.vkontakte.ru/u169802/154397/x_3a82b4fb.jpg]
The problem is that special programs (I tried "Find and Mount") also could not identify partitions to correct defected MFT. I thought that low level format may help me, but i heard, what use of any applications from other producers can probably destroy my HDD. Are there any special applications from Toshiba developed for such cases? Or you may advice me something else?
Thanks for your help!
P.S. These applications didn't helped me:
Find and Mount (doesn't find HDD)
Acronis Recovery Expert (doesn't find HDD)
OnTrack EasyRecovery Professional (didn't fix error, but helped with data recovering)
HDD Regenerator

So have you recovered all your important data?
I would just run Recovery to restore the HDD back to its factory state. If Recovery fails, you can try removing the partitions using FDISK from an MSDOS boot disk. Free bootdisks can be found at www.bootdisk.com
FDISK can also repair a Master Boot Record by running this command: FDISK /MBR
But its not 100% reliable, it could cause more harm than good.

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