Leo’s heart stopped when he saw the error message: "Drive not accessible. The parameter is incorrect."
He found the installer on a dusty backup USB. The version number felt ancient—5.6.1—but the word Full gave him hope. No trial limitations. No "you must pay to recover files larger than 2GB." Just full power.
Minutes felt like hours. Progress bar: 12%... 34%... 67%... Then, a yellow bar appeared. A candidate partition—exactly the size of his missing one.