Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011 Suite rescue disk freezes iMac

Question

Hi,
After seeing several recommendations here and on the net for Paragon's Hard Disk Manager 2011 Suite, and having good luck with their HFS+ and NTFS products, I decided to purchase it today. Immediately after installing it in my Win7 x64 boot camp setup, I used their tools to create a disaster recovery disk on a CD.  The burn went fine (and the volume name is PARAGON), I rebooted my iMac to test it out. However, after clicking on the disk in the bootup screen, my iMac freezes, causing me to power it down to eject the disk.
Along with the download came an .exe to create a WinPE disaster recovery disk. I booted back into Windows and ran the exe, successfully creating the WinPE rescue disk. However, when I tried to boot with this disk, it also froze on the volume selection screen. Again I booted into Windows and fired up HDM, thinking there was some kind of option to make a rescue disk that's compatible with my iMac, but I couldn't find anything
I'm thinking it might be due to my iMac's BIOS (or lack of one) that's causing me problems, but I'm not sure. I would think that the Linux/DOS option in the normal rescue disk creation would work, but it doesn't work for me.
Does anyone have a clue on what's going on? Paragon advertises support for HFS+ volumes (and I saw my many HFS+ partitions displayed in the program's main screen) and boot camp, so there is something really funny going on.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, I found out that the problem is not with the Paragon rescue disk, but with the inordinate amount of time my iMac takes to recognize non-OS X bootable media. I'll explain...
After trying several different manufacturer's media and still getting the same frozen system, I was about to give up. As a last resort I was going to try putting the media on a USB stick, but my stick was in the car.  I ran outside to get it from the glove compartment and headed back to the family room. I looked at my iMac's screen and there was the Paragon Hard Disk Manager main screen!! I couldn't believe it; the media and the burn was good after all.
Taking my iPhone and getting my stopwatch app, I powered off my iMac (with the rescue disk still in it), turned it on, and as soon as I heard the gong, I pressed the 'c' key and hit 'start' on the stopwatch. I was astonished to find that it takes 1 minute 48 seconds for the iMac to begin the boot process. No wonder I thought the disks were causing my iMac to hang. I was sitting on the white screen or the volume chooser bar  for almost 2 minutes while my iMac did.....nothing. No spinning disk, no progression bar (like sometimes appears when you boot OS X and there's a system problem), no nothing.
After reading the net, I found out that my (apparently) frozen boot is not my problem alone. It seems to occur with different machines and different setups. It must have something to do with the BIOS (EFI) emulation, because once boot starts it runs fast.
If anyone has a clue about the frozen white screen, please post here. I'm glad it's not my machine or my burning techniques, but it's a bear waiting 2 minutes each time Win7 needs to reboot (which seems to happen at least twice a day).