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Copy and pasted from the 7.0 manual:
"Acronis Secure Zone is a special, hidden system partition for storing disk and partition images. Ordinary applications can’t access it, for image security purposes. If you create a zone, it will be listed after all PC disks available for image creation and restoration. The Acronis Secure Zone is primarily meant to be used with Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (see below). It can be used to store both images and data. The zone is primarily made to manually or automatically create and restore disk images safely. Therefore it is always available for image creation as long as there is space for it. If there is not enough space, older images will be deleted to create space. This means you can automatically create disk images easily on a schedule (see Chapter 9)., and you won’t be bothered by zone overflow issues. The Acronis Secure Zone can still be filled completely when creating incremental images (see "Incremental images"). This happens because the program can't delete the first (complete) image, since it might be required for restoration. Thus, you should periodically check zone free space when creating incremental images, to increase it, if necessary, or re-create base images. We do not recommend that you create alternating incremental images. If you need to create incremental images of several disks (partitions), you should combine these operations into a single operation. Acronis Secure Zone can be located on any local disk. It is created at the expense of unallocated space, if available, or at the expense of partition free space. A PC can have only one secure zone. To create a zone on another disk, you must first delete any existing zone. You can store a disk (partition) image on the same disk (partition) if there's enough space for it, but you should not keep your primary images on the same partition or disk. You should burn images to removable media, such as a CD, DVD or Zip disks, another hard disk or a network drive. The only reason to create an image on the same partition (except for creating an image in the Acronis Secure Zone) is to use the image as a local, secondary backup. This backup could be used to restore damaged files. (Remember, if your disk becomes physically damaged, an image stored on the same partition will be inaccessible.) When you click Manage Acronis Secure Zone in the menu, the program searches for the zone on all local drives. If a zone is found, the wizard will offer to delete or resize it. If there is no zone, you’ll be prompted to create it. Before you create the zone, estimate its size. To do this, start image creation and select disks and partitions to image into the zone. At the compression level stage, you will see estimated image size. Multiply this by 1.5. If you plan to install additional applications or create incremental images, increase the zone size.
This boot manager is required for Acronis Secure Zone to work. If the boot manager is absent, the zone creation wizard will be run (see above). The restoration manager will be installed during this procedure as well. If there is Acronis Secure Zone on your PC, the boot manager will be activated immediately."
LOL. I sincerly hope all that doesn't confuse matters even more, Acadia
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