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He used Rufus to burn that newly minted ISO to the USB stick. Five minutes later, he plugged the USB into the dead Dell, hit F12, and selected the drive. He looked at the oscdimg
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But the standard USB was missing. Again. And the network deployment server was down for maintenance.
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