Corrupted Western Digital Disk, Disk Utility can’t repair this disk, Snow Leopard

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I own a  My Book Studio Edition WDH1Q10000, I’m using Snow Leopard 10.6.2.

The hard drive became Corrupted suddenly, I couldn’t write files I was advised to move the files and format by Disk Utility. I did and it didn’t help,  apparently I’m not the only one, I updated the firmware and the Firewire TURBO drivers, nothing seems to work, please help me.

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this is the Log from Disk Utility

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2010-02-24 23:08:34 -0500: Disk Utility started.

2010-02-24 23:08:59 -0500: Verifying volume “Data”

2010-02-24 23:08:59 -0500: Starting verification tool: 

2010-02-24 23:09:00 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.

2010-02-24 23:09:00 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.

2010-02-24 23:09:00 -0500: Checking catalog file.

2010-02-24 23:09:20 -0500: Invalid node structure

2010-02-24 23:09:20 -0500: The volume Data could not be verified completely.

2010-02-24 23:09:40 -0500: Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.2010-02-24 23:09:40 -0500: 

2010-02-24 23:09:40 -0500: Disk Utility stopped verifying “Data”: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.

2010-02-24 23:09:40 -0500: 

2010-02-24 23:09:47 -0500: Verify and Repair volume “Data”

2010-02-24 23:09:47 -0500: Starting repair tool: 

2010-02-24 23:09:47 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.

2010-02-24 23:09:47 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.

2010-02-24 23:09:48 -0500: Checking catalog file.

2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: Invalid node structure

2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: The volume Data could not be verified completely.

2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: Volume repair complete.2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: 

2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: Disk Utility stopped repairing “Data”: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

2010-02-24 23:10:09 -0500: 

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**********2010-02-24 23:08:34 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2010-02-24 23:08:59 -0500: Verifying volume “Data

”2010-02-24 23:08:59 -0500: Starting verification tool: 

2010-02-24 23:09:00 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.

2010-02-24 23:09:00 -0500: Checking extents overflow file

2010-02-24 23:09:00 -0500: Checking catalog file.

2010-02-24 23:09:20 -0500: Invalid node structure

2010-02-24 23:09:20 -0500: The volume Data could not be verified completely.

2010-02-24 23:09:40 -0500: Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.

2010-02-24 23:09:40 -0500: 2010-02-24 23:09:40 -0500: Disk Utility stopped verifying “Data”: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.

2010-02-24 23:09:40 -0500: 
2010-02-24 23:09:47 -0500: Verify and Repair volume “Data”

2010-02-24 23:09:47 -0500: Starting repair tool:

 2010-02-24 23:09:47 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.

2010-02-24 23:09:47 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.

2010-02-24 23:09:48 -0500: Checking catalog file.

2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: Invalid node structure

2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: The volume Data could not be verified completely.

2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: Volume repair complete.

2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.

2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: 2010-02-24 23:10:08 -0500: Disk Utility stopped repairing “Data”: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.2010-02-24 23:10:09 -0500: 
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Have you back up all of your data yet?

Try as much as you can.

After that, connect it via USB cable please.

Go back to the Disk Utility.

Create a partition.

Format it with GUID or Apple file system.

Does it work?

If not, you need to contact WD tech support to get your drive replace.

www.wdc.com/support

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Hi, it didn’t help I’m going to send the drive for replacement as you suggested