Hi,  I have searched the forum for similar messages and found a thread wherein Mac 
responded to Jessica W. about something similar, but I have a further question....

I am currently running a Dell Dimension 4100 desktop (5 yrs old this month) with 
Win ME (OEM version 4.90.300, FAT files), 256 mb RAM, Pentium 3 and I  would like 
to upgrade to Win Xp Home version.

My questions are:  a)  will 256 mb ram be enough to make XP work relatively faster 
than ME on the same system?  Would it even be worthwhile to do the o/s upgrade before 
any ram upgrade?  if not, where do I get more ram..and are they easy to install?

b)  How would I completely reformat the harddrive so that XP would go on a fresh 
system?  I would burn all my programs to a cd so I could save them...but I am not 
sure how to go about reformatting the harddrive properly to prepare.  I am not too 
familiar with partitioning and all that...I was more computer literate when I was 
younger..but I would definitely appreciate any help anyone could take the time to 
give.

thanks!!   

alyssa

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