MacBook, S.M.A.R.T Failure and Saving my data!

[crammaz]

Hey,

This morning I awoke to a little menu bar application of mine (S.M.A.R.T Updater) that my HD was in risk of immediate failure.

I double checked in disk utility and was greeted with a similar message, basically your HD is about to fail, please save as much data as you can.

Armed with my trusty copy of Super Duper and my external HD I completed a smart update of my data to a fully bootable clone!

My question though is this, Is there a risk that because I have essentually an exact copy of the drive..... could I have carried any of the S.M.A.R.T errors onto my external drive and thus corrupted that as well?

If so does anyone know of a way to secure my data corruption free??

Super Duper is my fav app, so I have a lot of confidence in its abilities.

Thanks in advance

TC



P.S: if it helps here is my system info.

Macbook 2GHz, 2GB RAM, Black, Western Digital Scorpio 250GB Drive, OS X 10.4.11, Super Duper! (latest version)

cheers