Utilities can't repair/verify: reinstalled mavericks onto external HD, now what?

Friend installed mavericks, upon automatic restarting, the setup process said his disk is corrupted, he has no backups.
Disk utilities cannot repair/verify/backup onto external hd. (Tried several times INCLUDING in recovery mode)
Rebooted, ran setup and installed mavericks onto my external HD, setup computer like new.
Currently running MacBook off external hd using mavericks, can see the old HD, and repairing it using disk utilities didn't work.
What now? Backup HD onto external+erase+reinstall old osx using cd? IF SO, HOW?

I upgraded to Mavericks 10.9.4 and Timemachine backed up to my 4T Gdrive on both my MacPro and Macbook Pro. 2 weeks later I try and back up on my laptop in Time Machine and it can not find the hard drive. I run Disk Utility and it says to repair disk. It then tells me it can not be repaired and I should reformat it. So I plug it directly(never a hub)into my desktop and boot it up in both Mavericks 10.9.4 as well as on my second harddrive in Lion 10.7.5 and both do not read the drive any longer. I found a handful of similar complaints on this discussion group with various external drives of different makes. I was also coming out Firewire 800 if that adds anything else to the pot. I am afraid to plug any other external drives in after this. I will buy another drive and dump evrything in the cloud as well but I after reading other posts, it seems to recur. I am not sure if anyone out there has figure this out yet. Thanks!

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