

my drive is 512GB with only 95.1GB “ in use” and my current image backup is 34.5GB. Of course, it’s also possible to use a “ different” source for the backup image but you should make sure it’s plugged in before you boot from the Paragon recovery disk (sometimes the Paragon S/W won’t “ see” the other device unless it was actually plugged in when the system powered up.)īTW, your image backup will not be as large as the drive you’re backing up since it only backs up the “ in use” sectors on the disk.
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I use a 64GB USB thumb drive (which is large enough to hold both the Paragon S/W and a full image backup of my system drive) plugged into a USB 3.1 port on my PC and it takes ~20 mins to complete the backup. You boot from the recovery disk, choose the backup wizard, select the drive you want to backup, select the source where you want to put the backup, then apply the changes. I use Paragon and to do a “ full” image backup you need to use a Paragon recovery disk.
