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Yeah. Getting drives out of retail machines can really be a pain in the ass. The main reason for this is the enormous bezel that tends to be put on the front. If the Dell is like others I've worked on, you need to pull off the side panel (usually just a lever, sometimes a thumbscrew as well) then there are buttons to be pressed on the inside. One is on the inside right wall of the case, and one is somewhere near the top, behind the optical drives.
Once you get the bezel off, getting the drives out is a piece of cake. Unhook the power cable and the ATA cable (usually a ribbon cable about two inches wide), unscrew the screws on the visible side (if there are any), or just depress the lever (if it's a screwless design) and slide the drive out the front of the compy. Reverse that process for the new machine, then let Windows XP do its magic (i.e. auto-detect and install the new drive).
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