The executable launched. No GUI. No progress bar. Just a single command line window with green text:
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[Warning: Host memory reallocation in progress.] The executable launched
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[Welcome to EEE. You have been here before.]
[Mirroring active partition to shadow sector 0xFFFFFFFF.]