Acronis Secure Zone protects your system by saving an image to a special partition on your hard disk, where it can be restored if you have a problem. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager boots and restores a system without the requirement for an additional boot medium. You can boot from a backup image containing a backup .tib file of the system partition, and you can test a backed up system without actually going through a restoration. If the operating system boots from the .tib file, then it will boot when the need arises for a system recovery.