Downgrading from win 7 to xp on old rig

[silversmithy]

I have an old computer that I had upgraded to 7 ultimate a while back. It is not my main comp, and due to incompatibility issues running old games, (which is what this will be used for), I want to switch back to xp. Too many issues even trying to run in comparability mode, frustrating. I know when I upgraded to 7 it kept all of my photos, etc saved in a separate partition/folder called OLD. Will this occur again, or will I lose everything. The other ? is I will be taking that HD out of an old dell with an intel CPU and putting into a different machine with an AMD CPU. I have the driver cd for that motherboard so am guessing just a matter of booting from DVD drive to download. I am sure I have done this in the past, but was a long time ago so want to do it right. Thanks

 

[cilliers]

What are the games?
Ever heard of GOG?
They solve these incompatibility problems and often add widescreen support with legacy re-releases.
I have played many of their releases, because frankly, its even better than it was on windows 95, 98 or xp.
Ref: https://www.gog.com/

If you absolutely must go back to XP, then we can also talk about the pitfalls that go with that, I suppose.
But that is an entirely different kettle of fish.

 

[silversmithy]

Frontlines fuel of war is the latest game not to work, but I should not be surprised as THQ games on the PC have given me problems. I will look into GOG. Thanks

 

[silversmithy]

What are the games?
Ever heard of GOG?
They solve these incompatibility problems and often add widescreen support with legacy re-releases.
I have played many of their releases, because frankly, its even better than it was on windows 95, 98 or xp.
Ref: https://www.gog.com/

If you absolutely must go back to XP, then we can also talk about the pitfalls that go with that, I suppose.
But that is an entirely different kettle of fish.

Well I think that at this point the difficulties with older games, and the hard drive that has Windows 7 always having to run repair every time I turn it on makes me definitely want to go back to XP on this machine anyway. I could try and reinstall 7& and run repair, but will I still lose all photos and personal info doing that?