The VM was too tricky so i just used sandboxed, worked well and my pc luckily is still alive, so its safe but i advise just taking some extra care because hard drives are important and i did read about someones hard drive failing cuz of the game
The situation seems really strange to me; we hadn't had any hardware problems before. I'll keep it in mind, although I think it might be that the boy's hard drive was already faulty and coincidentally failed when playing the game.