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yes you can,, heres a few things to be sure of ,, you didnt list your hard drive size, which, has to have a minimum of 2gb of space, xp is about 2gb in size, millenium, 98, and 95 only take up about 600 kbs ,, anyhow,,

yes you can the guy who says you need at least 512 mb is wrong,, but it helps,, you have 384 which is fine, xp only requires a minimum of 128 mb of ram and you far exceed that,,

it will run, but w. the cpu may still run a bit slow, but itll sure run better than with ME or any older operating system,,

you can upgrade in one of 2 ways, you can purchase an update disk from walmart or any other store that still carries them,, walmart sells for 88 bucks everywhere else ive seen is 99 ,, put the disk in and you can either do a do an upgrade that will save a lot of your system settings from Me , but also upgrade to all the xp functions as well,,make sure you back up on a disk all your important data files and saved items like pictures or documents, they will not carry over in the process and would be lost, so most likely youll have to reload those afterwards,, or you can do a complete new install which will wipe the hard drive clean of everything and start from scratch,,,

it up to you

good luck

It can be done quite easily. Your drive will quite happily accept being formatted in NTFS format instead of FAT32. You can also leave it as FAT32 but it's an inferior format that is much more prone to data loss. So long as you have over 1.5GB to install Windows, over 64MB RAM and your processor is faster than 233MHz then it will accept XP. Old machines often benefit from having XP installed because it's more efficient and quicker than the Windows 95/98/ME series, although it takes more space on the hard drive. I've installed XP on a 400MHz machine before now and it ran fine, although a bit slowly. If you want to keep your data you should use a memory stick, second hard drive, second computer or burn Cds to keep your data as you'll lose the contents of the drive when you format it. You won't be able to transfer your programs and will have to reinstall them. As said below, you really need a minimum of 256MB RAM, 512MB or 1GB will make it work much better. RAM is cheap these days but ensure that your motherboard will accept it before you buy it. A processor of about 800MHz upwards will work well with sufficient memory.

Yes you can. Your computer has more than enough power to run XP.

yes follow the instructions on the following page

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941

No You need 512mb ram minimum

yes