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o first, it will use the unallocated space. Volumes will be moved, if necessary, but not resized.

Moving of locked volumes requires a reboot.

o If there is not enough unallocated space, the program will take free space from the selected

volumes, proportionally reducing the volumes' size. Resizing of locked partitions requires a

reboot.

Reducing a system volume to the minimum size might prevent the machine's operating system from

booting.

4. Click OK.

6.8.2.2. Decreasing Acronis Secure Zone

To decrease Acronis Secure Zone

1. On the Manage Acronis Secure Zone page, click Decrease.

2. Select volumes that will receive free space after the zone is decreased.

3. Specify the new size of the zone by:

o dragging the slider and selecting any size between the current and minimum values. The

minimum size is approximately 50MB, depending on the geometry of the hard disk;

o typing an exact value in the Acronis Secure Zone Size field.

4. Click OK.

6.8.2.3. Deleting Acronis Secure Zone

To delete the zone without uninstalling the program, proceed as follows:

1. In the Acronis Secure Zone Actions bar (on the Actions and tools pane), select Delete.

2. In the Delete Acronis Secure Zone window, select volumes to which you want to add the space

freed from the zone and then click OK.

If you select several volumes, the space will be distributed proportionally to each partition. If you

do not select any volume, the freed space becomes unallocated.

After you click OK, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 will start deleting the zone.

When removing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent from the system, you have two options: to keep

Acronis Secure Zone along with its contents (which will enable data recovery on booting from

bootable media) or remove Acronis Secure Zone.

6.9. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is a modification of the bootable agent (p. 384), residing on the

system disk in Windows, or on the /boot partition in Linux and configured to start at boot time on

pressing F11. It eliminates the need for a separate media or network connection to start the bootable

rescue utility.

Activate

Enables the boot time prompt "Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager…" (if you do not

have the GRUB boot loader) or adds the "Acronis Startup Recovery Manager" item to GRUB's menu (if