For two hours, they worked in the digital trenches. Alex read out the faint, ghostly impressions on the sticker while Graves typed. They failed twelve times. On the thirteenth, Graves stopped.
The installer often expects hyphens in specific positions (e.g., XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX ). Entry without hyphens, or with extra spaces, is rejected—even though modern interfaces auto-format, the legacy installer does not.
