I'm not an IT person, so excuse my ignorance of how to use Paragon Disk Backup & Recovery 15. I purchased this product to create a disk image so that I wouldn't have to spend 40+ hours reinstalling applications after doing a disk recovery. Is simple terms how would I create a disk image that includes the Windows 10 OS, installed applications, and data files. In case of a crash I would like to be able to use the disk image to reinstall the above.
Select "Back Up to VHD", then press "next", then "Back up to volumes", select your source drive, then select where you want to save your VHD to which is better to be an external drive but could be another internal drive.