

One to download the Windows product, and a second which is a program that creates the Recovery CD. This is what they call the WinPE based Recovery CD, when you buy the Paragon product they send you two links. it happened to me more than once while testing various backup programs).Īs I said, I use the stand-alone version of Paragon.

There are lots of system backup programs that run under windows, but if Windows is running other processes are scribbling on hard drive and there's a very real chance they can corrupt the backup (which you'll never know until you try to restore and it's too late. The reason I like both of these is that they can run stand-alone. I also tried Clonezilla, which is free but I think the user interface is too difficult for most users. This new version of Paragon is easier to use and the backup is MUCH faster. One program I can recommend is Paragon Hard Disk Manager (or Paragon Backup and Recovery which is $10 less). You notice I said WHEN, not IF, because sooner or later it's going to happen to you. In my discussion of Complete System Backup I recommended using a stand-alone program that creates a complete backup of your C drive which can be easily restored to a newly formatted hard drive when your C drive fails or becomes hopelessly corrupted by a virus.

Backup Programs: Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011 by Wren McMainsĪfter reviewing, click for a two page Summary of the Backup Steps you can print.
