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How can I repair a disk that disk utility says it can’t repair this disk?

I have an external hard-disk with a single Mac OS Extended partition. This disk stopped working couple of days ago. I tried to repair the partition with disk utility but no luck. The error message is the following:

Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and…