No, fsck cannot fix hardware problems. The drive is dead or near-dead, you need to replace it. It may very well be under warranty, however, so you should be able to get a replacement from Western Digital. Go to their web site and type in the serial number, and you can see the warranty status. Many hard drive warranties are 3 years.
One other suggestion about the drive. It may not be near death yet. I've seen this sort of thing happen when a system didn't quite have a powerful enough power supply. If you have a lot of drives in your system and just a generic power supply, you might check into that.
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