As I recall, it showed something like "EMBR" (I expected to see "Acronis Secure Zone" or some name like that), and that some bytes out of each partition had this thing.Īnyway, this is really no big deal (yet anyway) because my system still seems to be functioning OK - except now I no longer have access to my PQ. The reason I just tried to start PQInfo again was to refresh my memory on what it showed as the name of the Acronis Secure Zone partition (in hindsight I guess I would have had to have installed the Secure Zone again). I just now tried to start PQInfo again, but now even that won't start - it just gives the splash screen saying there are "disk errors" and just quits. It showed the MBR as starting on sector 8, and also that there were errors in the disk geometry (which I assume was the MBR placement). This PQInfo utility also showed a similar error splash screen as the main PQ program did, but it started after that. PQ also has a utility called "PartitionInfo" under PQ Tools, and I used that, NOT the PQ main program. When Acronis seemed to successfully delete the Secure Zone, my PQ still wouldn't start.īy the way, some of you may be wondering how I looked at the partition info in PQ when I said above "I also saw some indication it was there when I looked at the partition info in PARTITION MAGIC software". So, I decided to delete the Acronis Secure Zone to see if my PQ would start again.
I suspect this was because the Secure Zone writes over the MBR in sector 1 with its own MBR.
And I also saw some indication it was there when I looked at the partition info in PARTITION MAGIC software (see below again).Īfter installing the Acronis Secure Zone, my Partition Magic 8.0 software would no longer start up (I wanted to see how it would show a display of the Secure Zone) and it showed a splash screen saying that there was an error in the disk geometry and that the first sector was no longer the MBR and that the MBR was now in sector 8. In fact, when I chose to try to delete (see below) the Acronis Secure Zone, the wizard showed the deletion option, so it certainly looks like the Secure Zone was made. I ran the Acronis wizard to make a Secure Zone, and it seemed to do fine (running all the batch files to reallocate space from each of the partitions) and it seemed to complete successfully. I have 4 partitions on my HD: C(OS), D(Apps), E(Utils), and F which is for data only.