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"Windows cannot find the required installation files. Please ensure all files are present."
Now, the computer had nothing. And the USB stick had a corrupted file. Panic set in. The computer rebooted into a black screen with a blinking cursor. No operating system found. His parents would be home in an hour. The "miracle" 600MB file had turned into a disaster.
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Six hundred megabytes. It finished in under an hour.
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