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 ## Obtaining and writing shredos to a USB flash drive, the easy way !
 
-You can of course compile shredos from source but that can take a long time and you can run into all sorts of problems if your not familiar with compiling an operating system. So if you just want to get started with using shredos anmd nwipe then just download the shredos image file and write it to a USB flash drive. Please note this will over write the existing contents of your USB flash drive.
+You can of course compile shredos from source but that can take a long time and you can run into all sorts of problems if your not familiar with compiling an operating system. So if you just want to get started with using shredos and nwipe then just download the shredos image file and write it to a USB flash drive. Please note this will over write the existing contents of your USB flash drive.
 
 Download the shredos image file from [here](https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.2020.02/releases/download/v2020.02.0.29rc.001/shredos.img.tar.gz)
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