GMan! Very many thanks again for your prompt reply. I am now able to understand the situation a little better, but will spend a couple of days working slowly thru the review/preview website you recommend; and come back if I still need more help. Thanks again, Roger W On 16/06/2009 6:42 a.m., Gman wrote: Roger, The following is from the Acronissite and is a snippet from an interview where Acronis explains the Secure Zone a little. It doesn't answer your question, but the info seemed important enough to include here. "The Acronis Secure Zone is simply a FAT partition that only Acronis can read. The FAT partition that we create; at minimum we take used space from a local disk. At minimum, it has to be about 34 Meg and that's just so that you can boot to that partition. You hit f11, you pop in a password and it emulates our recovery environment. You can also save images, directly to that password protected, encoded partition. So, you can save images there." The Zone's partition is formatted as FAT32 primarily so that it can serve as a directly bootable partition, but it is well aware of how to handle NTFS. As for your actual query, the following is a review/preview that provides step by step directions with screenshots on how to perform various operations with True Image Home version 10. Part 6 focuseson backup restorations, but I highly recommend going through all of the other parts, as well. http://www.acronis.com/company/inpress/2007/03-15-boot-loader-1.html[1] OR http://tinyurl.com/n4ffst[2] Peace, Gman http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php[3] "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "RMB White" <roguer@xxxxxxxxxx>[4] To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>[5] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 5:52 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Acronis Secure Zone question. Gman ! Delighted to hear your dulcet tones again; and thanks for your reply. I feel comforted by your reply, even though I have NO hope of understanding it; my brain does not operate in your stratosphere. Just to give me final confidence, are you saying that an Acronis Backup written to FAT32 can be restored SEAMLESSLY to it's original NTFS situation (AND to any other NTFS situation) without corruption, or complication?? 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[6] ORTo subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[7] with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[8] with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/[9] //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/[10] To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[11] To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx[12] --------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com[13] Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.60/2166 - Release Date: 06/09/09 18:08:00 --- Links --- 1 http://www.acronis.com/company/inpress/2007/03-15-boot-loader-1.html 2 http://tinyurl.com/n4ffst 3 http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php 4 mailto:roguer@xxxxxxxxxx 5 mailto:pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 6 //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk 7 mailto:pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 8 mailto:pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 9 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ 10 //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ 11 mailto:pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 12 mailto:pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 13 http://www.avg.com --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------