Cannot Create ASZ
Greetings everyone,
My issue is the following:
I only have one disk drive in the laptop with 4 partitions. I just resized the main partition and move the last 2, and changed it to dynamic so I could create the partition at the end. The first one remained untouched, system partition it says.
I now have a 98 GB partition, at the end of the physical disk, but Acronis fails with the following message:
"Failed to create Acronis Secure Zone. Cannot find an appropriate disk drive for creating Acronis Secure Zone".
My question is: Did I messed up something or is there a way to get Acronis to recognize the last partition and create the secure zone in there?
Thanks for your time and assistance.
Serge

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I wonder why not. Laptops have limited storage capacity and we should be able to work with what we have. Doing external backup/recovery would be long and tedious.
Just my opinion.
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Serge,
I understand. There is probably a good reason for this, whether it be related to disk's partitioning scheme, data management or having the LDS database at the end of the disk? I honestly don't know.
I have referenced your thread in the wish list forum. This means the development team will review your feature request for possible inclusion in a future release. It's doesn't mean the feature will be added, but the request will be investigated. Note: you will not likely receive a response to this.
Thanks
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OK, thanks! I'll see if I can do something useful with this extra software I purchased then. I already have Acronis on 2 other computers and things work the way I want. :)
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I just installed my fourth iteration of Acronis 2016 being the newest.
I have installed on my Brix mini PC that has the updated version of Windows 10 and another copy installed on my Hewlett Packard pavilion 15 laptop computer that came with Windows 10 pre installed.
I have worked since 2011 with Acronis software installed on my windows 7 and XP machines without any issue.
Version 2016 works fine on my BRIX mini PC but fails to create a secure zone on my Hewlett Packard Pavilion 15 laptop.
Every time I create a secure zone weather at be at boot or while Windows is running the secure zone never gets created.
In addition there is no Feedback during the zone allocation creation process that would indicate a problem.
I'm not sure if its the new technology installed on the Hewlett Packard Pavilion 15 laptop but it is frustrating that I cannot create a secure zone.
One last item the Hewlett Packard Pavilion 15 laptop came with windows 10 installed and all other versions I have installed on other PCs I have installed the operating system from a blank hard disk
Anybody have any answers?.
Robert
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I just installed my fourth iteration of Acronis 2016 being the newest.
I have installed on my Brix mini PC that has the updated version of Windows 10 and another copy installed on my Hewlett Packard pavilion 15 laptop computer that came with Windows 10 pre installed.
I have worked since 2011 with Acronis software installed on my windows 7 and XP machines without any issue.
Version 2016 works fine on my BRIX mini PC but fails to create a secure zone on my Hewlett Packard Pavilion 15 laptop.
Every time I create a secure zone weather at be at boot or while Windows is running the secure zone never gets created.
In addition there is no Feedback during the zone allocation creation process that would indicate a problem.
I'm not sure if its the new technology installed on the Hewlett Packard Pavilion 15 laptop but it is frustrating that I cannot create a secure zone.
One last item the Hewlett Packard Pavilion 15 laptop came with windows 10 installed and all other versions I have installed on other PCs I have installed the operating system from a blank hard disk
Anybody have any answers?.
Robert
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