Cannot Create Acronis Secure Zone on 2nd Hard Drive

I've done this successfully on another computer, so I know what to expect...
But on my system, when I try to create a secure zone on the 2nd hard drive, it goes through the entire process seemingly alright (including reboot, etc.) except no secure zone has actually been created! This is confirmed by looking at the available space on my 2nd hard drive after the repartition (and it hasn't changed!) and the Acronis s/w does not reconize/find any secure zone.

Puzzling. It goes through the entire process, yet doesn't actually create the secure zone.

PC: Dell Dimension E510 with WIn XP Pro
Acronis True Image Home v9.0, build 3,567
2nd Drive is Seagate 160 GB SATA

The other system upon which I have successfully set up Acronis True Image 9.0 is a Dell E310 with the same model 2nd hard drive.

Yes, these are two separate, legally purchased retail boxed versions of True Image.

Any ideas?

TIA,
Danny

 

The SZ was a useful feature when most systems had only 1 hard drive and tape was the accepted backup medium. A disadvantage of the SZ is that backups stored there can only be accessed by True Image. In other words you cannot use, say, windows explorer to copy or move the images around.

If you still feel the need to use an SZ on that second drive, check whether there is actually enough free space.

 

However if you mount secure zone images you can copy, explore etc. at will. I use it all the time.

Xpilot.