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Hello Mike Dippel!

** On Monday 14.02.22 - 22:37, Mike Dippel wrote to Tristan Greaves:

 MD> I found a solution.  Since it is an HP computer, I entered the serial
 MD> number onto their support page and downloaded every Device Manager for
 MD> this model and loaded them onto my USB stick that I was going to use to
 MD> install the OS.

 MD> While booting up with the stick, I selected each folder containing the
 MD> various drivers, and finally the OS installed successfully.  I have to
 MD> admit how elated I was that after about 5 days of trial and error, it
 MD> finally worked!  Windows 11 machine.

Win11 is bootable/installable from files on a stick? I would  
not have expected that.


 MD> The customer was happy too.

For now.  :/   Does the customer have previous Win7/Win7  
experience?

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