Hi

Have a hdd which has suddenly developed bad sectors/clusters.

Currently I cannot boot to windows so I booted to the command prompt and ran
a surface scan dos utility with the auto fix switch.

This surface scan dos utility has been running day and night for 4 days and
has 1200+ bad clusters.

What I want to know is whether the bad clusters it is marking as bad
clusters will be permanetely marked as such; i.e. the hdd will know not to
use this space again even if I try to restore an image of the partition?