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Drag the slider to the appropriate position or type an exact value.

The minimum size is about 50 MB, depending on the geometry of the hard disk. The maximum size is

equal to the disk’s unallocated space plus the total free space on all partitions selected at the

previous step.

When creating/enlarging the Acronis Secure Zone, the program will first use the unallocated space. If

the unallocated space is not enough to achieve the desired size, the selected partitions will be

decreased in size. Resizing of partitions may require the computer to be rebooted.

When reducing the size of the Acronis Secure Zone, if there is any unallocated space on the hard disk,

it will be allocated to the selected partitions along with the space freed up from the Acronis Secure

Zone. Thus, no unallocated space will remain on the disk.

Warning! Reducing a system partition to the minimum size may prevent your operating system from

booting-up.

11.5.4 Acronis Secure Zone protection

You can set up password protection for the Acronis Secure Zone in order to prevent it from

unauthorized access.

The program will ask for the password at any operation relating to the Acronis Secure Zone such as

data backup and recovery, mounting images or validating backups in the Acronis Secure Zone,

resizing and deleting the Acronis Secure Zone.

To set a password for the Acronis Secure Zone:

1. Select Set password.

2. Type the password in the Password field.

3. Retype the previously entered password in the Confirm field.

4. [Optional step] You can also select a secret question that will be asked in case you forget the

password. Select a secret question from the list and enter an answer to it.