Hi thwapy

In addition to the bullseye suggestions from maineman & jimbo, there is another problem:

08/06/2007 14:27:49 error Write error at 448 (16) - Code 06 29 00 [Unit attention, Power On or Bus device reset occured]

This could be a loose power cable on the motherboard or on the back of the drive. Could also be a problem with the IDE controller. This error was in more than one of the logs and would have resulted in an immediate coaster. Another Dell user reported that the DMA mode for the optical drive was disabled in the BIOS settings, so check that too.