One secure zone on external disk for two PCs?

[mike.h]

I bought an external hard disk and I would like to use it to archive drive image backups for my desktop PC and also for my laptop. Can I have two drive images of both PCs in one Acronis secure zone and will be able to distinguish which is which, in case of a disk crash, when I have to restore the whole PC to a brand new disk after the crash?

[TheWeaz]

I really wouldn’t bother with the Secure Zone.
Make a folder called Laptop and one called Desktop. Set the tasks to dump the image files into their respective folders.

[Chutsman]

Agreed ... dump the SZ ... especially as you are using an external hard drive.

[Acronis Support]

Hello mike.h,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/).

Please also take a look at this FAQ article (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/faq.html#25) explaining the reason why we do not recommend creating Acronis Secure Zone on a detachable drives.

You can find more information on how to use Acronis True Image 9.0 in the respective User's Guide (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/docs/).

If you have any further questions concerning Acronis software, please feel free to submit a request for technical support (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/support/) or post any of them on this forum. We will certainly try to help you in resolving any issues.

Thank you.
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Alexey Popov