[Alex Ethridge]

I have a Dell machine here with the system recovery stored on the hard disk? You access it by pressing Ctrl+F11 when the blue Dell band appears across the top of the screen just after POST.

Let's say I install Acronis TrueImage and Acronis Secure Zone (press F11 for Acronis Recovery). Think that will destroy access to Dell's "Press Ctrl+F11" for system recovery?

[raybro]

IMHO, you are better served bt depending on one recovery program or another.

I have Acronis TI instaled on my machine and use it exclusively. XP's System Restore is disabled and I have no othet backup/recovery programs actrive. Just my way of doing it and so far so good. I'm sure others will have differing opinoins.

Raybro

[redoak]

Nothing is gained using the Acronis "Secure Zone" feature. If the HDD goes bad, so long "Secure Zone." Just put the backup on an external hard drive that is dedicated to backups. It should not be connected/turned on except when making backups.

The advantage of TrueImage over the Dell recovery partition is it is current as of the last backup.

{redoak}

[Alex Ethridge]

Hey, when you don't know the answer to the poster's question, you can always steer the thread in another direction by cluttering the thread with irrelevant information.