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Partitioning help for ASZ

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Hi,
I need help in creating partition of the ASZ (Acronis Secure Zone) with rescue disk.I want to install windows 7 on a harddisk having three partitions,
1. C drive for windows (Single primary ntfs partition without the boot partition of 100mb created for system /boot files)
2. D drive as storage for files(Primary or Logical Partition)
3. ASZ partition at the end of the disk
Should I leave unallocated space for asz or create primary or logical partition and format it as fat32 or ntfs ?
I had tried leaving unallocated space but could not create asz on it.Please provide the right method for asz partition.

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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.

If you do decide to continue with creating the Secure Zone, I believe you must let the Acronis software create it. There may be other ways, but I haven't played with Secure Zone for a long time.

I agree with Tuttle.

If you wan to go ahead and create your ASZ, you don't need to prepartition the disk or leave it unallocated. ATI will put the ASZ wherever it sees fit. the ASZ is not a partition you have much control of...