crossover cable query

I have a friend who is buying a new laptop it will be with windows 7 or 8 and he would like me to transfer all his data and photo's from his old laptop which is windows XP so what i am asking is would there be any conflict if i use a crossover cable.
My guess is all will go OK but i just need some reassurance.

Thanks
Bill

 

Hi Bill,
Yeah a crossover cable is the way to go and it is all pretty straight forward but just in case here
This is a video that explains very clearly just jump straight to 1:48 to skip the firewire method or listen if you have a Mac LOL

Hope this helps and good luck :wave

 

Thanks Joffa,
My thought were that it would work, i just was not sure about from XP to 7 or 8 as XP was such a different OS.
I have done this from 7 to 7 but never from XP.

 

No worries Bill it is all easy once you have the crossover cable
I now have an adapter that turns a standard cable into a crossover cable which is really handy :-D

In the good old days crossover cables were always red but last year I got caught out when I grabbed a red cable thinking it was a crossover cable but it turned out to be just a standard network patch cable. I then went over to my mum's place to copy her files from her old pc to her new one and of course it didn't work :-o
Lucky I had my tool case with me and my Fluke network meter immediately showed the problem

 

Easy way, keep both connected to his router, and then just drag & drop from the shared folder on the old computer, to the folder on the new computer. Easier is to use a USB pocket drive if the info is under 128gb, or one of these http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba...lver/4668013.p?id=1218501058015&skuId=4668013 or even a cloud drive like Amazon's, Google's, Microsoft's, etc..

In this day and age, you really should not have anything on your local drive, it should be somewhere that you can grab it from a remote location, such as a cloud drive. Pictures, most like myself keep them in our Facebook, some in a Flickr account.