On a new dell I keep having a safely remove hardware icon asking me to remove my external dvd drive which camw tih the freakin cmputer. I made it where it always hides the icon, but still I'm sure it would be bettter for it to be recognized as safe! And the drive didn't even come with an installation cd! It came with some roxio installation cd and 2 cds for recording movies. In the instructions it said to put in a cd to install the drive, yet there wasn't one. But it works so I assumed it was ok, but who knows.