How to make Acronis Secure Zone truly hidden?
Acronis True Image 2013 build 6514
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM
After creating the Acronis Secure Zone (as 1 partition spanning an entire internal hard disk), I see it listed in Windows Explorer. I cannot copy files into that object; i.e., it is write protected. Yet I don't want anything ever to read from there. In past versions, the ASZ was hidden by not assigning it a drive letter, using a non-standard partition type in the MBR, and *not* showing an ASZ object anywhere visible to programs, including Windows Explorer.
I don't want to see the ASZ listed in Windows Explorer or via any other system file API so no program or other user or malware will know it is there or even implemented. Is there some way to actually hide the ASZ so it is never visible when it exists?
Yes, I realize malware and users can interrogate the partition tables in the MBR to see what partition types are recorded there so they could determine that way if the ASZ exists. I've yet to encounter such malware and I'm the only user here that knows about digging into the MBR. Obviously opening Windows Explorer and having a object right there in the open declaring "Acronis Secure Zone" will alert any other user, program, or malware of where I am saving my backups. I'd rather keep it a secret as much as possible.
