Thought my scary experience might be use to someone:- After an unrecoverable XP crash ( my fault for letting Partition Manager7 correct? an error on C: ) I tried to restore from a recent Paragon archive on an external usb hd with Paragon 8.51 restore CD. Didnt recognise the external hd. Eventually got the archive onto the computer hd using Ubuntu linux CD. Booting with the Paragon restore CD again, restoration started but froze after 15min. A Google search said the free Paragon Backup & Recovery v 10.2 handled old Paragon archives. So made a restore CD from this - using another PC. Booting with the new Paragon restore CD, it found the archive on the ext usb hd and completed the restore --- So All Working Now. Norm