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setup Acronis Secure Zone fails

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When I try to Setup a secure Zone on a new Windows 8 Computer I'm guided through several steps. Suddenly I'm asked to restart the Computer - if I do, nothing happens with the secure Zone, when I cancel the restart also nothing happens.

Any idea?

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FYI:

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.

thanks tuttle,

in principal you are right. I have a external drive but I also have a very big internal (2 TB). My plan was to use both. But maybe it will be better and more secure to create a separate Partition. It still will be the same drive with the risk of a damage but it will be a standard way.

On the other hand - it shall work, they do a lot of marketing - then they shall provide a working solution - I will try to create a ticket.

Klaus,

I agree with Tuttle. If you can, avoid the Acronis secure zone. You still can create a separate partition to store backups that are OK to lose, but just use a regular partition. That way, you will have much more control over archive management.