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Can't Create Acronis Secure Zone/Stuck Status

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I am trying to create the ASZ on my secondary HDD on my computer. I go into the area to create it and tell it how much room to set aside for the SZ and hit "proceed" and the little status window pops up saying its been started but it sits at 0 percent. The little notification tray icon is animating but, that's all. I can't do anything else. I let it sit for almost 30 minutes and nothing changed. I need some help. Thanks.

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Try the same process when booted from the TI Recovery CD.

GroverH wrote:

Try the same process when booted from the TI Recovery CD.

Thank you that worked. It took forever but, it worked. On the initial reboot after completion, it BSD and rebooted again. I wonder why it wouldn't show the status or do anything in Windows.

Also, can you maybe tell me if it is or is not allowed to create a ASZ on a network drive (my external HDD connected to my router (Cisco E4200) via the USB storage connection?)

You should create an ASZ only on a local internal disk.

http://www.acronis.com.au/homecomputing/products/trueimage/faq/secure-z…

Pat L wrote:

You should create an ASZ only on a local internal disk.

http://www.acronis.com.au/homecomputing/products/trueimage/faq/secure-z…

That is what I ended up doing. However, my question still remains is it possible to create and use an ASZ on a network drive? In my case, an external HDD that is connected to my router via USB for network storage.

I doubt it is possible to create an ASZ on a network drive, because the creation involves accessing the target drive partition table. I don't know how I would remotely format and partition a disk in general, and for sure ATI out of the box cannot create an ASZ on a network drive.

Then even if you used ATI to create the ASZ on the drive on the server, you wouldn't be able to share it over the network.

You best alternative is to create a regular partition on your USB disk and share if over the network.

What specific benefit of an ASZ do you think you would be missing then?