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Newbie need help with Acronis Secure Zone

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Hi guys, i have a friend trying to restore data from C. But when he use Acronis doesn't find any *.tib file. But I discovered an Acronis SZ hidden partition. What does it stands for? I googled about it, but i can't find any specific details. And i don't know if he back-up data to an external drive.The question is does this hidden partiton help in this case with no *.tib file found? Any help will be so much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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It's a special protected area of the hard drive, intended to contain backup images. It is a poor substitute for a proper backup drive.

I advise against creating the Secure Zone. It's really meant as a sub-optimal method of backup for people who have no external target to which to backup. If your drive fails, you would lose your system, files, and your Secure Zone backups.

It's much better and safer to make backup images to an external hard drive.

Also, in the past there were occasonal reports of the Secure Zone causing problems to the system. When I installed Secure Zone on one PC, it corrupted the hard drive causing data loss and rendering the system unbootable. Perhaps the latest versions of Secure Zone are improved, but that experience coupled with its inherent insecurity and lack of reduncancy cause me to be wary of Secure Zone.

I also recommend against the associated Startup Recovery Manager. If activated, it modifies your system drive Master Boot Record (MBR), which can cause problems with multi-boot managers and other low-level disk utilities.

The Acronis Secure Zone should be discovered by the Acronis recovery CD or Acronis running in Windows. This is the only way to access it. Then, you should whether ATI (Acronis True Image) will find any TIB file in there.
If you google Acronis Secure Zone, you will find out about ways to transform the partition into a normal partition. This requires careful editing of data directly on the disk to change the partition type ID.