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Hard drive not visible on windows after I installed Acronis safe Zone on it

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I should have takenmore care or done more research bu I assumed the safe zone would not effect the main drve and only create an extra partition. Now theere is rthe safe zone and ne other unformatted partition.

I am in panic regarding the contact on this drive and hoping I can fix the problem.

Ronan

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Greetings Ronan,
In order for us to try and help, we need a better picture of your environment / problem.

Hardware, OS, version and build of Acronis you are using. Did you create the Secure Zone in Windows or from a boot CD. This is a second drive or your primary drive that included your OS? The more information you provide, the easier it will be for us to try and help.

Windows PC Asus Tubo mb WINDOWS 7, I have os SD drive and have sevral oher large 3.5inch HD.

All were being used with one large partition so when I decided to create an acronis secure zone I assumed Acronis would resize the current partitiona nd create a new one for the secure zone.

I own acrnois true image home but this is a recent os install and only got around to putting my Acronis true image Home 2009 on.

Really hoping I can turn back the clock!

Thanks
Ronan

Greetings,
Would really like to help with this. I did want to bring one important point to your attention. v2009 is not certified or officially compatible with windows 7.

So if you:
Don't see an ASZ icon in My Computer
Don't see the ASZ in Disk management
and/or cannot manage or delete the ASZ using the program (menu) Tools > Manage Acronis Secure Zone

This might be why. You can't expect reliable function if you use a version of the product that is not compatible with your OS.

Beyond this, when you create a ASZ, you define the amount of space that will be used for ASZ. Only one ASZ can exist at a time, and it can normally be managed or deleted as I have described above. Support from Acronis is available, but is not free since 2009 is many years old.