Harddrive backup, XP and windows 7

wazza

My laptop has been playing up recently. It is running windows XP. Have another laptop which is running Windows 7.

I have some important data on the old laptop which i can copy onto a CD. Is it worth doing a backup? If so will it work on windows 7 or only on xp machine?

TakeThis

wazza wrote: »

My laptop has been playing up recently. It is running windows XP. Have another laptop which is running Windows 7.

I have some important data on the old laptop which i can copy onto a CD. Is it worth doing a backup? If so will it work on windows 7 or only on xp machine?

The data can usually be read on any OS. To which kind of data are you referring?

wazza

TakeThis wrote: »

The data can usually be read on any OS. To which kind of data are you referring?

I can copy pics, word docs etc onto CD. There are programs like nero etc whose disc i may have mislaid somewhere.

TakeThis

wazza wrote: »

I can copy pics, word docs etc onto CD. There are programs like nero etc whose disc i may have mislaid somewhere.

Programs you cannot move, but you can save their Product Keys using programs widely available...such as Belarc.. Then you can download the programs themselves from places such as FileHippo.
As to whether they will work on Windows 7...depends on the program.