Levlg voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in
microsoft.public.win98.disks.general on Sun 03 Dec 2006 06:02:03p:

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




Exactly. All the bad sectors should be marked as unusable so when the
image is restored to the drive the bad sectors will not be used. If your
drive is showing a lot of bad sectors it could be a sign of impending
drive failure and you may be better off to replace the drive with a new
one.


Later......

LabRat...... |:^{)