So, in this particular case, what Paragon has is this emulator. In general, there are some advanced kinds of things you can play with here but for the most part, you just really don’t need to unless you just have specific needs that go beyond the need to recover things. What it allows you to do is create Recovery Media to Flash Memory which you can boot from or to CD/DVD.

The program, this particular program has a Recovery Media Builder. Acronis called it the Rescue Media other tools have different names for it but the bottom line is that when your hard disk fails in the worst possible way and you cannot boot your system, then you need a way to boot your machine such that then you run your backup’s software to be able to restore a backup image to the failed hard drive or replacement hard drive. One of the important tools that you almost always want to start with regardless of what tool you are using is the Recovery Media Builder. The issue is that with, ideally I’d like a 20 minute segment here on a particular program a backup is going to take much longer than that so I’m simply going to walk you through some of the processes that apply to this program. I’m not going to try and actually perform backup here. Backup utilities in general are going to want to have administrative level access to your system so when you when you fire them up, they will in all likelihood throw UAC prompt if you have UAC enabled. Paragon has a free backup utility and I’ve already installed it here.

Paragon free backup software