The partition is hidden from the system, just like the recovery partitions used to recovery your sytem to "as new" condition. It can only be managed and/or restored from within the Secure Zone manager in Acronis. Don Gman wrote: > Hello Roger!!! I was beginning to think you had jumped ship on us. > > It's necessary for FAT32 to be used for the secure zone so that it can be > accessed from outside of Windows (pseudo-DOS). If it were set to NTFS, the > energency boot disk would not have a chance at finding it. If you even have > need to restore the backup, it will not have any problem saving it to the > correct location using its native NTFS. > > Peace, > Gman > > http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php > > "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "R. M. B. White" <roguer@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "pc techtalk" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 10:36 PM > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Acronis Secure Zone question. > > > >> Having created a Secure Zone, I found it was a FAT32, whereas the rest >> of my Partitions are NTFS. >> >> I tried to change it by "Acronis Disk Director> rt click the Secure Zone >> partition>Advanced>change type> >> an X in a red circle appeared to stop me. If I ignored this and clicked >> on NTFS,HPFS I received dire warnings; so aborted the attempt. >> >> Question please ! Having created a backup in the Secure Zone (in FAT32) >> will I be able to Restore it to it's original location (which will be in >> an NTFS partition) ?? >> >> All advice will be gratefully received. >> >> Roger W >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------