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Secure Zone and ASUS motherboards problem...

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I want to describe a very odd problem, which i encountered with Acronis Home 2014 and True Image Server 2010 and ASUS H87-Plus Motherboard.

Sometimes, can be random, or after improper shutdown computer won't see HDD. It just hangs on ASUS screen, wont letting you enter BIOS. I was surprised that after trying a million things, i just connected HDD to other PC (older DDR2 based) and deleted secure zone from HDD. After that ASUS booted without any problem. Still this is not a solution. I really don't want to loose my Secure Zone after any power shortage.

Is there a solution? This is happening with both secure zones, created with 2014 home version, and 2010 server version.

Thanks for help in advance.

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Some food for thought:

I advise against creating the Acronis Secure Zone. It's a sub-optimal method of backup intended 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 occasional 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 redundancy cause me to be wary of Secure Zone.

I also recommend against the associated Acronis 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. I prefer to use the bootable Rescue Media.