How do I open an old CD from XP in W-10

[McWolfy]

I have an old CD that I put a book I was writing on, I think it was in 2007. I now have a windows 10 system how can I retrieve the information from the CD? -

 

[Someone Somewhere]

You should be able to just put it in any system with an optical drive.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Absolutely. There are no incompatibilities. The only real difference is in the partition and file system structures. Modern application could be filtered/modified for use on an old system like XP, and many people still use XP although there are a lot of applications NOW that won't run on XP due to dependencies that have no code support in XP. Windows 10 however should have no problem with files from XP so long as you have the appropriate program to open the format the book was written in. If it's a program that doesn't have a compatible version with Win 10 you may have to run in compatibility mode or install a filter for another program to convert it to a usable format though.

What format/application did you use to write it? Most text based programs have built in filtering for versions going way, way back.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

What software did you use to do the writing ? If you still have a copy, install it and set it up for XP compatibility. Alternately download Open Office or Libre Office; they have import filters for most word processing programs.