restoring? entire computer

[ilovecows]

my computer is a windows 98 second edition and it takes a half hour to start up and sucks big time, blah blah blah.. anyway, my friend recently told me that her brother put xp onto all of their home computers with a restoration disc (i think it was) that was xp and i wanted to know if that is safe to do because i do have xp restoration discs from another computer and want xp on my computer. would this work? or is my computer to old to handle it? i hope that made sense..

[Sumpin_Wong]

would this work? or is my computer to old to handle it?

From the info ya gave in your post there is no way to tell if your computer is too old. Is your computer a true dinosaur, or does it just sratup alot slower than you think it should? WinXp does have a program that will run from the disk that verifies the system you're installing it to is able to support it. But you said you had an Xp retore disk, I dunno how far that's gonna get ya. I'm no computer scientist, not by anymeans.. but I don't think it can restore something that was never there to start with. I could very well be wrong, sorry if I am proved to be so