This utility was designed by Paolo Bellarino of IT Solutions Networking, Ltd., in order to allow Windows users to create a backup of the registry, system files, configuration settings, user profiles and more. The Pa-Software utility allows Windows users to create these images and more.

A user may create an image of one or more partitions on a single hard drive with the backing up of these partitions prior to the start of the Windows setup.

A disc image, also in computer terminology, is a virtual copy of a specific disk segment, such as the data portion or the operating system sector of a hard disk or of an entire hard drive, including all its files and information.