I am using the Paragon Backup & Recovery Program 16 Free. Made my backup. Now i want to create a bootable USB stick to recover and restore in the future if needed.
Followed the instructions and ran the Recovery Media Builder (RMB) to place the boot environment and recovery software on the US stick. Boot to the USB stick and it doesnt work. Instead I get a blue screen with mouse but nothing else.
Next, repeated the process but this time used the option to use the Windows ADK/WAIK for building the Windows PE image.
Boot to USB stick, same result: blue screen with mouse but nothing else.
The other option noted is to build an ISO file, which I did. But there are no further instructions on how to boot to the ISO file from the USB stick.
Their instructions are non specific enough and lacking. Sent a note to tech support. They blew me off and said no tech support for the 16 Free edition.

If I can get this USB stick to work properly, I'll stick with the product. Otherwise, I'm going to go to another backup and recovery software.

Used older versions of Paragon Backup and Recovery and made the recovery media successfully. Never had this kind of goofy trouble.
thanks for your help in advance.
R.