Paragon Drive Copy Helps XP to Transition to Virtualized Environments

Paragon Software Group announced that Paragon Drive Copy 14 Professional – the Windows 8.1 compatible tool for drive migration – is available to Windows XP users as an alternative to keep Windows XP system in a virtual environment and to assist in delivering a transition to new OSs.

On April 8th 2014, Microsoft terminates technical support and security updates for its 13-year-old Windows XP OS. The problems XP users will start facing are compatibility issues with other software and hardware, and security risks. Windows XP systems will be vulnerable to new malware that is not blocked by the security software. Therefore, virtualizing XP becomes a safer way to keep the old system protected than a normal, physical installation.

Microsoft recommends XP users who want to continue employing the old system after April 8th, to use it as a virtual OS. Unlike the native virtualization solution in Windows 7 and 8, this software offers flexibility by supporting major virtualization formats, including VMware Workstation, MS Virtual PC and Oracle VirtualBox. If the user needs to extract only several files out of the old Windows XP system, this allows you to connect the XP virtual disk to the current version of Windows’ disk map and transfer necessary files without launching the XP VM.

Moving the system to a virtual environment is a tedious task and users might experience many difficulties, including the denial of VM network access. In addition, when the OS is installed, users might discover that certain applications will not run correctly on it. The software will automatically transfer the OS, programs, files and personal settings without losing any data. Virtualization gets around many limitations, and this is a way of cloning the old XP system for use in a VM. P2V (physical-to-virtual) Adjust functionality makes migration applicable for any complex virtualization task. XP users can switch to the new OS but still keep Windows XP in the virtual environment and continue using the legacy Windows XP OS whenever they want.

Features:

• Virtualization of Windows OSs including all data, applications and settings (P2V)

• Migration to new HDDs, SSDs, new hardware (i.e. UEFI), and VMs

• Various Migration options (P2P, P2V, V2P and V2V)

• 2TB+, SSD and AFD drives support

• Support for VMs from major virtualization vendors

• With ConnectVD extract files or folders out of Windows XP

• Windows 8 and 8.1 support

Paragon Drive Copy 14 Professional is available for a 25% discount between April 3 and April 11, 2014. After April 11th, it returns to the regular price of $39.95.