Imaging blank drives

We are imaging drives for refurbished PCs using Paragon Partition Manager 15 and the Restore Wizard. The bare drives are blank to begin with having been wiped for data security purposes (all zeros on all sectors). At startup Paragon Partition Manager spends several minutes doing something which is not explained anywhere in the manual or online we can find. There is a graphic on the screen showing a hard drive with red and green lines "scanning" across it but no explanatory text. What is this operation, and is it necessary if the drive(s) are blank to start with, with no boot, OS or data partitions? Is there any way of bypassing this step with, say, a command-line switch if it is not necessary? We have to image thousands of drives each year and the time this "scanning" operation takes eats into our ability to process drives expeditiously.

When you boot Linux-based Paragon environment, occurs (each time) scanning of hardware. At detected drives (internal and external) are searched partitions, and if they are - are mounted. I doubt that this procedure can be skipped.

Perhaps the process will take place more quickly in an WindowsPE environment.
More quicker deployment of images will happen if the drive (s) connected via USB 3.0 to a Windows PC on which running Paragon.