MacBook HD Failure - worry of carrying over file structure errors?

Hello all
Please excuse my intrusion .... I'm a composer and usually hang out on the Logic forum but have popped in to see if anyone has any experience with MacBook Internal Hard Drives?
I have a 2008 MacBook Duo 4,1 and have today had a hard drive go down for the second time this year. The Hardware test says ... ALERT ERROR 4HDD/11/40000004:SATA(0,0) I tried to bring it round with Disk Warrior but no joy.
My worry is that having once again installed a new hard drive and re-built everything from a Time Machine back-up, a clever Mac friend suggests that I may be carrying over a FILE STRUCTURE ERROR that exists on the TM back up which could cause the same issue over an over again?
If this is a possibility - is there anything I can do that negates my having to re-install everything again from scratch? (including copious authorisations and licenses for a huge amount of software from Quicktime AVID codecs for use with locking movies to my DAW and Music Sample Libraries!)
Does anyone have any experience of File Structure Errors being carried over from HD back ups?
Many thanks in anticipation of help.
Best
Dick

Hey Dick,
just to get down and technical, since it feels like you did not understand all the facts (no offense, please, I will try to explain).
When a hard drive fails mechanically or physically, and, let's say, makes the computer crash, there is a pretty good possibility that files that were open at the time of the crash were not saved properly, and thus are broken. It's just a consequence from the failure and the crash, if it happened. It's not DUE to the failure itself.
So, if you have a TM backup, which, as was stated before, is just files copied to some other drive somewhere on the network, there is no way you could reintroduce some physical damage, that was on your internal drive, back to a new one. If you HAD a utility that would do a 1:1 copy of a drive, there would be the possibility that defective blocks would be copied, but not with TimeMachine.
Let's be theoretical.
Let's say your hard drive failed in stages. Let's say you were working on a project. And let's assume you had a bunch of files open, when the drive initially failed. The system crashed, and some of those files were damaged. Let's further assume that you rebooted the system, and did a backup. And let's finally assume that you THEN changed the drive and restored the backup to the new drive.
Now, in THIS particular case, that would mean that there is a possibility that you backed up one or more damaged files to the TM (since a damaged file is still that: A file) and then restored it.
Now let's finally assume that THEN, after the restore, was the first time you tried to open those particular files after the first crash. You would then see that they are broken.
To sum this up: That's the only scenario I can imagine how to get something damaged "back from the grave". Apart from that, it may just be bad luck that your drive failed for the second time, and I am pretty certain that you don't have a defective backup.
I hope I made some things clear. Please let us know if you have any further questions, and don't be afraid if they might sound dumb to you. There's no such thing as a dumb question. Just dumb answers
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