Programs of formatting a hard disk checks its surface and excludes the
damaged (unreliable) places from further use - this is written in the
manual. Clearly, that if after formatting a hard disk something will be
written on it, these excluded places will not be used. And will it be fair
in the event when contents of this disk will be restored from an image which
has been done BEFORE formatting (for example, by Acronis)?

Thank you

Lev