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Yeah, it was nicknamed the F6 floppy because Windows XP setup would say "Press F6 to load a SCSI driver" and you would hit that, select the driver from your floppy, and continue setup.
I've even seen vendor's websites call it F6 Driver because the unofficial name was so ubiquitous
To be fair I remember that prompt, and if I was playing around with some fancy new HDD configuration and the customer bought in a job as "install windows because I can't even" the ball would have dropped on the first go and I would have worked it out pretty fast I reckon. No way I would have jacked up the price on your dad.
Yeah, I work at a (much more legitimate) computer shop and we wouldn't have up charged on that either. What we quote is what we quote, even if it blows out to 10 hours instead of 1, that's on us not on the customer.
That computer shop my Dad went to, he learned afterwards from study mates that the shop had done that to multiple people for various different jobs, and they're constantly changing names but I'm pretty sure it's the same business running even today.