[Leroy S. Mort]

Both installations were done from the same CD.

I've got a Plextor drive that will read almost anything, but I've also got a LiteOn that will occasionally fail to read correctly discs that the Plextor handles just fine. My point was that your daughter's drive may have hiccuped during the install.

[LTCJ]

Could be; it was burned on a LiteOn under Linux, read on another LiteOn under XP, and then seemed to read OK with no error messages on whatever the Dell uses only to fail on reboot.