Not Sure How SuperDuper Fits into This Situation

[Courtney]

I have booted up from my superduper backup, and it worked fine. No problem.

I have tried safe mode (I'm just going down the list apple provides for trouble shooting) and it didn't work. It would get to a point and then just stop and return to the spinning circle.

Reading safe mode it said that there was O/I sector failure. I have no idea what that means, but I just was reading your twitter and you made a comment about buying a new hard drive (I believe that was your comment).

So which way should I go? Try and just reinstall OSX (haven't done this), archive and install, or erase and install and where does superduper fit into the whole scheme?

Or am I wasting my time and should buy a new hard drive?

Thanks for your help!