secure zone on disk 2?

[Ed Chait]

I have a pc with two internal hard drives. When I launch the secure zone option, I am given the choice of setting the secure zone partition on either my C: drive or my D: drive, which is my second hard drive.

It seems to me that setting the SZ up my D: drive would be the preferable option, since if my C: drive goes bad, I can restore the image from D: to a new hard drive.

Does this reasoning sound OK? Will the SZ still work on D: if my C: drive crashes?

thanks for any assitance,

Ed Chait

[Chutsman]

The idea of the SZ is so that the Images stored there will not be accidentally overwritten or erased which is more likely to happen if the SZ is on the C drive. But you are right for not wanting to put the SZ on a C drive. Also remember the SZ may create problems on its own just by the fact that you cannot access it except by using TI.

Now are you likely to accidentally erase your Image Backups stored as ordinary backup files (.tib) i.e. not in a SZ, on your D drive? My guess is "no".

The SZ was an excellent idea in it's day when most systems had only one hard drive and people used tapes for backup. Nowadays large drives are so cheap that most users have not just a second drive, but also an external drive, plus CD burners, DVD burners etc.

So IMHO, using a SZ is creating another possible item where a problem may happen.

[Xpilot]

-{ Quote: "I have a pc with two internal hard drives. When I launch the secure zone option, I am given the choice of setting the secure zone partition on either my C: drive or my D: drive, which is my second hard drive.

It seems to me that setting the SZ up my D: drive would be the preferable option, since if my C: drive goes bad, I can restore the image from D: to a new hard drive.

Does this reasoning sound OK? Will the SZ still work on D: if my C: drive crashes?

thanks for any assitance,

Ed Chait" }-

The secure zone will work OK on your drive D. What you have described is what I use for my first line of backups which run in the background without leaving Windows.
I use the secure zone because once I set up my backup schedule the backups run automatically and are managed on a FIFO basis with no further input necessary from me.
In case of an event which might destroy both C and D HDDs I also create full backups of C drive to an external USB HDD.
I test both these back up methods each time I install a new Acronis TI build. The method is safe and simple. I withdraw the working C drive, set it to one side and then replace it with another new or used drive. Then boot from the recovery CD and restore from both my backup sources in turn.
I have followed this stratergy since first using V8 some time ago and have continued it with V9. It works every time :-))

Xpilot.