How to Re Image a Machine with Paragon

CT uses Paragon Backup & Recovery to reimage its S10 and S11 machines in the field. The Images for every machine are stored locally on the Raid in a partition called the ‘Capsule’. Imaging is completed from within Windows initially and then via a fully automated boot program called ‘Backup and Recovery.

Paragon Backup & Recovery 14 is located in the start menu as a green tile in the main metro screen and as an app in the full start menu. Click on it to open and you will be presented with this screen. Click ‘restore from Virtual disk to begin.

Paragon will being to load the recover process which takes about 10 seconds. Once ready click next on this screen.

Now you must point Paragon at the correct image for your needs. At this screen click ‘switch to file view’ and then expand the folder of the image you want. There may be many options but for this example a Watchout Display image is shown. Once the .pfi file is selected click Next.

Now you need to select what objects to restore. Click ‘Restore disk or partition’ and Paragon will proceed to the next step.

Now you need to select what to restore. By default you should choose the whole disk (Basic GPT) as shown below but in some circumstances you might just want to restore specific partitions.

The next step is to choose where the image will be restored too. The saved images are exact replica’s of the system SSD’s so you need to make sure you select the Samsung hard drive and not the RAID Array. The correct drive may sometimes appear at the top so don’t just assume its always the 2^nd one.

As soon as you click next on the previous screen you’ll be presented with a warning screen about bootable partition deletion. Click Yes.

The next screen will show you the indented results. This is the last point at where you can go back or cancel the process. Remember the process will delete and then restore everything from the C drive, make sure you’ve backed up what you need. Click next and then wait for a reboot option and click reboot. The machine will no go and reimage itself to a know good config and then boot back to windows. The process takes about 15 mins.