Leo let out a breath he didn’t know he’d been holding.
Then he saved the ISO to the controller’s internal drive. Three copies. One on the D: drive, one on a hidden partition, and one burned to a DVD-R that he labeled with a Sharpie: DO NOT LOSE. EVER. windows 7 iso 64bit
He closed the fire safe. Spun the lock.
Leo’s last hope sat on the workbench: a 2008 Dell Latitude, the one his late father had used for architectural drawings. Its battery was a spicy pillow, its screen had a magenta tint, but its soul was intact. Buried in a folder marked DRIVERS_OLD was a subfolder: WIN7_ISO . Leo let out a breath he didn’t know he’d been holding