Mavericks - The Disk "Mavericks" is damaged and cannot be repaired

[sriharshach]

First, My PC configuration is

ASUS P5KPL-AM/PS MotherBoard
4 GB 800Mhz DDR2 RAM
250 GB Hard Disk
NVIDIA GeForce 210 Graphics card

I had been triple booting with Mavericks, Ubuntu 13.10 and Windows 8.1 Pro on this PC and had no issues since last two months. But yesterday, Finder started to restarted itself again and again, so I've rebooted my PC.

At the boot flags, I've tried -v and noticed that it said

disk0s1: I/O ERROR

So I've tried to boot with the installer USB and chose Disk Utility. At Disk Utility, I decided to perform a clean install of Mavericks again, so I've formatted the Mavericks partition. And after formatting, the disk went gray in the DiskUtility.

I've restarted the PC and in the installer, started installation on the disk Mavericks which was formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and it complained me

The disk "Mavericks" is damaged and cannot be repaired.

If this was a disk error, I should not be able to boot in windows or linux but I was able to boot into them and they function properly. So, what should I do?

 

[Khan]

I would think a disk sector is bad. The rest may be working now but would not trust that disk.